Q:

Windows piping simple issue

I want to do this:
echo < test > | more

This didn't work, so I tried this:
echo ^< test ^> | more

This didn't work either
What am I doing wrong? 
PS.:  I need the brackets to be printed.  They part of the string I need.  

A:

Because of how pipes are implemented by Windows CMD.EXE, the ECHO statement gets parsed twice, so the special characters must be escaped twice. 
echo ^^^< test ^^^> | more

See Why does delayed expansion fail when inside a piped block of code?  and all the answers for an in depth discussion of the many non-intuitive features of pipes.