Commenting in a Bash script inside a multiline command

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This will have some overhead, but technically it does answer your question:

echo abc `#Put your comment here` \
     def `#Another chance for a comment` \
     xyz, etc.

And for pipelines specifically, there is a clean solution with no overhead:

echo abc |        # Normal comment OK here
     tr a-z A-Z | # Another normal comment OK here
     sort |       # The pipelines are automatically continued
     uniq         # Final comment

See Stack Overflow question How to Put Line Comment for a Multi-line Command.

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