How do I comment on the Windows command line

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In Bash    is used to comment the following  How do I make a comment on the Windows command line

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A comment is produced using the REM command which is short for  Remark    REM Comment here

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The command you re looking for is rem  short for  quot remark quot   There is also a shorthand version    that some people use  and this sort of looks like   if you squint a bit and look at it sideways  I originally preferred that variant since I m a bash-aholic and I m still trying to forget the painful days of BASIC  -  Unfortunately  there are situations where    stuffs up the command line processor  such as within complex if or for statements  so I generally use rem nowadays  In any case  it s a hack  suborning the label infrastructure to make it look like a comment when it really isn t  For example  try replacing rem with    in the following example and see how it works out  if 1  1       rem comment line 1     echo 1 equals 1     rem comment line 2    You should also keep in mind that rem is a command  so you can t just bang it at the end of a line like the   in bash  It has to go where a command would go  For example  only the second of these two will echo the single word hello  echo hello rem a comment  echo hello  amp  rem a comment

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Lines starting with  rem   from the word remarks  are comments   rem comment here echo  hello

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Sometimes  it is convenient to add a comment to a command line  For that  you can use   amp REM misc comment text  or  now that I know about it    amp    misc comment text   For example   REM SET Token  4C6F72656D20697073756D20646F6C6F   amp REM This token is for localhost SET Token  722073697420616D65742C20636F6E73   amp REM This token is for production   This makes it easy to keep track of multiple sets of values when doing exploration  tests of concept  etc  This approach works because   amp   introduces a new command on the same line

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Powershell For powershell  use    PS C   gt  echo foo   This is a comment foo

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this is one way to comment   As a result      this will also work    so will this    and this   Above styles work outside codeblocks  otherwise   REM is another way to comment

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It s  REM    Example   REM This is a comment

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