A useful way to comment out blocks of code in bash

by | Apr 8, 2013 | Technical Blog | 2 comments

Bash does not have an ‘easy’ way to comment out blocks of code – but this is simple enough.
At the beginning of the block you wish to comment out put:
: <<'QWERTY' and at the end of the block put: QWERTY I've used 'QWERTY' as it should be a string of characters which is not used in you code - adjust as needed.

2 Comments

  1. kbailey
    kbailey on 9th April 2013 at 10:30 am

    As a Brucie bonus…
    If you are editing using the shell-script(bash) mode in Emacs then Emacs will recognise the commented out block and colour it accordingly.

  2. maicon
    maicon on 5th January 2015 at 5:34 pm

    thanks!