Working with a mish-mash of shell scripts and maven files, all of which were designed to work together in an environment with specific paths and environment settings that aren’t all well-documented.  (Even better would be checked at first run from a script with a fast fail, but…)  The builds are long – very long.  So it becomes useful to do partial builds.  Very happy to find someone listing an approach for block comments in a shell script.  That way as I figure out a new hack (documented in my script, of course), I don’t need to execute everything that came before.

Link for future reference: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/947897/block-comments-in-a-shell-script