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How do you comment and uncomment?
Another way of commenting is by using Ctrl+K on your keyboard or Edit | Block | Comment from main menu. Similarly, to uncomment the selected section, choose Ctrl+Shift+K or Edit | Block | Uncomment.
How do you use the Uncomment command?
If you select a block of code and use the key sequence Ctrl+K+C, you’ll comment out the section of code. Ctrl+K+U will uncomment the code.
How do I uncomment a line in terminal?
The “Uncomment” command corresponds to the Uncomment entry in the Advanced submenu of the Edit Menu . It may be called by using the keyboard shortcut “Ctrl+Shift+K”. Its action is to remove the two dashes in front of each selected line if there are such characters.
How to comment and uncomment a line in a file?
POSIX awk doesn’t offer in-place updating (neither does POSIX sed, incidentally), hence the output is first captured in a temporary file and that file then replaces the original on success. Quick example of how to comment and uncomment a line in a file. Thanks for contributing an answer to Stack Overflow!
How to uncomment a line that contains a specific string using Bash?
Yes, to comment line containing specific string with sed, simply do: sed -i ‘/ /s/^/#/g’ file And to uncomment it: sed -i ‘/ /s/^#//g’ file
How to comment on lines that contain a string?
Toggles commenting of lines that match a specifiable string that must occur as a separate word anywhere on the line. The comment character (string) is also specifiable. Note that the solution is awk -based, because a robust portable solution with sed is virtually impossible due to the limitations of POSIX’ basic regular expressions.
Is there a way to uncomment all lines in SED?
An uncomment command can be created analogously. sed’s line selection is quite powerful. In addition to specifying first and last lines by number, it is also possible to specify them by a regex. So, if you want to command all lines from the one containing foo to the one containing bar, use: