I was wondering if there is a way to comment out a set of lines in a shell script. How could I do that? We can use /* */ in other programming languages. This is most useful when I am converting/using/modifying another script and I want to keep the original lines instead of deleting.
It seems a cumbersome job to find and prefix # for all the lines which are not used.
Lets say there are 100 lines in the script in consequent lines which are not to used. I want to comment them all out in one go. Is that possible?
if false
then
...code...
fi
false
always returns false so this will always skip the code.