Within multi-line comment blocks like shown in this example. Keep in mind that you will need to escape closing parentheses Rem are logical partitions, and are assigned lettersįor multi-line comments, use conditional execution: Rem/||( Rem The first drive is a primary partition and is To provide a comment about what a script does, type: rem The commands in this script set up 3 drives. To include an explanatory comment before the prompt command in a config.sys file, type: rem Set prompt to indicate current directory Some script authors might use it that way instead of. Rem This batch program formats and checks new disks. It doesnt inherently update anyone after running the script. To add vertical spacing through batch file comments, type: off Blank lines are ignored when a batch program is processed.
You can't use a redirection character ( ) or pipe ( |) in a batch file comment.Īlthough you can use rem without a comment to add vertical spacing to a batch file, you can also use blank lines. To display comments on the screen, you must include the echo on command in your file. The rem command doesn't display comments on the screen. Specifies a string of characters to include as a comment. This command is internal to the command-line interpreter, cmd.exe.