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comment and uncomment lines in bash script via sed
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script.sh
sed -i '/<pattern>/s/^/#/g' file #comment
sed -i '/<pattern>/s/^#//g' file #uncomment
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@rishavpathania1995 rishavpathania1995 commented Feb 5, 2019

nice.
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@IshuGitHub IshuGitHub commented Oct 12, 2019 •
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This will add multiple # if executed multiple times..If you want to add # only once even after multiple times command execution then you can use this:
sed -e '/<pattern>/ s/^#*/#/g' -i file
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