title: Inline comments for Bash?
body: <p>I'd like to be able to comment out a single flag in a one-line command. Bash only seems to have <code>from # till end-of-line</code> comments. I'm looking at tricks like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>ls -l $([ ] &amp;&amp; -F is turned off) -a /etc
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It's ugly, but better than nothing. Is there a better way?</p>
  
  <p>The following seems to work, but I'm not sure whether it is portable:</p>
  
  <pre><code>ls -l `# -F is turned off` -a /etc
  </code></pre>