Inline comments for Bash?

Question

I\'d like to be able to comment out a single flag in a one-line command. Bash only seems to have from # till end-of-line comments. I\'m looking at tricks like:<

Answer 1

Most commands allow args to come in any order. Just move the commented flags to the end of the line:

ls -l -a /etc # -F is turned off

Then to turn it back on, just uncomment and remove the text:

ls -l -a /etc -F

Answer 2

$(: ...) is a little less ugly, but still not good.