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Re: [Help-bash] Multi line comment


From: Greg Wooledge
Subject: Re: [Help-bash] Multi line comment
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 10:20:21 -0400
User-agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2)

On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 10:15:21AM -0400, Jerry wrote:
> I am sort of new to using Bash. Bash apparently does not have a built in
> multi line comment feature like in C. I Googled and discovered quite a few
> methods. I was wondering what is the preferred method by bash gurus.

The preferred method is to put # on each line.

# This is a comment.
# It spans several lines.
# Because I had a lot to say.

Really, don't try to be "clever".  This is a shell script.  Keep it simple.



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