f-steff/bash_tricks.sh

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How to comment out bit pieces of code simple and effective.

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bash_tricks.sh

	#!/bin/bash
	echo "Multi line comments in Bash"
	: '
	blah blah
	blah blah
	blah blah
	blah blah
	blah blah
	# '
	echo "All done done!"

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f-steff commented Oct 11, 2019

Explanation:

: is shorthand for true and true does not process any parameters. (manual page: SYNOPSIS true [ignored command line arguments]

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