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Old 07-02-2007
Block Comment in Shell script

how to put multiline comments in a shell script like /* Some code */ in C language?
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Old 07-02-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by skyineyes
how to put multiline comments in a shell script like /* Some code */ in C language?
There is no multiline comment in Shell script
# 3  
Old 07-02-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by skyineyes
how to put multiline comments in a shell script like /* Some code */ in C language?
Code:
: '
comments here
and here
'

If your comments contain single quotes:

Code:
: <<'END'
comments' here
and here
END

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Old 07-02-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by radoulov
Code:
: '
comments here
and here
'

If your comments contain single quotes:

Code:
: <<'END'
comments' here
and here
END

Just make sure that the string END does not appear among the commented lines. Or chose a marker which is not so easily repeated.

Code:
:<<supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
echo "This will not get printed"
echo "Yet another escape"
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

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