in reply to Re: Shortcut for inserting comments
in thread Shortcut for inserting comments

perl -i.bak -pe '$_="# $_" if($.>=10 and $.<=20)' myscript.pl

You can omit mention of $. and the comparators if you want.

perl -i.bak -pe '$_="# $_" if 10 .. 20;' myscript.pl

Cheers,

JohnGG