Commenting out a set of lines in a shell script

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I was wondering if there is a way to comment out a set of lines in a shell script. How could I do that? We can use /* */ in other programming languages. This is most useful when I am converting/using/modifying another script and I want to keep the original lines instead of deleting.

It seems a cumbersome job to find and prefix # for all the lines which are not used.

Lets say there are 100 lines in the script in consequent lines which are not to used. I want to comment them all out in one go. Is that possible?

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: || {
your code here
your code here
your code here
your code here
}
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