Recently I got to know about how to comment multiple lines in shell/bash scripts.
I will show an example to comment multiple lines of code in bash/shell script.
Following are lines of code in my script test.sh
#!/bin/bash
echo a
echo b
echo c
echo d
echo f
The out put we can get after executing script test.sh is shown below:
a
b
c
d
e
f
If we want to print only a and f, we need to comment multiple lines of code in script test.sh. Traditionally we use “#” to comment a single line of code in shell/bash.
To comment multiple lines code you need to add <<COMMENT and COMMENT tags. The code between this to tags will be commented.
The code in test.sh after adding comment tags will looks like below.
#!/bin/bash
echo a
<<COMMENT
echo b
echo c
echo d
COMMENT
echo f
Now execute the script test.sh and the output you will get output as shown below:
a
f
-Sany
commented? or ¨not included¨ in the resulting scripted output…
suppose it amounts to the same thing.
Worth noting that the string COMMENT in the comments would unescape this also…
<< WIBBLEWOBBLEIMACOMMENT
echo ¨blah¨
WIBBLEWOBBLEIMACOMMENT
would be also valid (and less likely to ever get an accidental clash)
The reason I used word COMMENT is it’s easy to remember and apt for this scenario. You can use any word instead using COMMENT, it should work without any issue.
イベントでは
、これだけに固執さらなる情報と事
実を持っている必
要があります：
Thank you. it help me
Thanks, works with GNU bash, version 4.2.37
It cannot work with the following code:
—————————————-
echo ‘a’
<<COMMENT
echo 'b'
echo 'c'
$(grep 'igotu' non_existed_file)
COMMENT
echo 'e'
—————————————–
the output is:
a
grep: non_existed_file: No such file or directory
e
instead of
a
e
—————————————
the result shows that the grep statement in the $(..) is still executed by the shell, and this is totally not what we expected with the comment.
It seems the comment failed with the $(…) statement.
the above code is tested in:
CentOS release 6.3 (Final)
GNU bash, version 4.1.2(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)
anybody know why?
🙂