Way to create multiline comments in Bash?

Question

I have recently started studying shell script and I\'d like to be able to comment out a set of lines in a shell script. I mean like it is in case of C/Java :

Answer 1

Multiline comment in bash

: <<'END_COMMENT'
This is a heredoc (<<) redirected to a NOP command (:).
The single quotes around END_COMMENT are important,
because it disables variable resolving and command resolving
within these lines.  Without the single-quotes around END_COMMENT,
the following two $() `` commands would get executed:
$(gibberish command)
`rm -fr mydir`
comment1
comment2 
comment3
END_COMMENT