Re: [Help-bash] Any way to make commenting one command in a long pipeline easy

[Marco Ippolito]

printf '%d\n' {1..10} |
# grep -v 2 |
grep -v 5

On 15/10/2019 05:16, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> cmd1 | cmd 2 | ... | cmdn
>
> Suppose that I have a long pipeline like the above. I'd like to
> comment out a cmd (say cmdi) from the pipeline.
>
> Although I can break the pipeline in multiple lines, I can not comment
> out a command in the middle.
>
> cmd1 | \
>    cmd2 | \
>    ...
>    cmdn
>
> Is there an easy way to comment out a command in a pipeline? Thanks.