Records comments in a script, batch, or config.sys file. If no comment is specified, rem adds vertical spacing.
Note
This command is internal to the command-line interpreter, cmd.exe.
Syntaxrem [<comment>]
<comment> Specifies a string of characters to include as a comment. /? Displays help at the command prompt.
The rem command doesn't display comments on the screen. To display comments on the screen, you must include the echo on command in your file.
You can't use a redirection character (< or >) or pipe (|) in a batch file comment.
Although you can use rem without a comment to add vertical spacing to a batch file, you can also use blank lines. Blank lines are ignored when a batch program is processed.
To add vertical spacing through batch file comments, type:
@echo off
rem This batch program formats and checks new disks.
rem It is named Checknew.bat.
rem
rem echo Insert new disk in Drive B.
pause
format b: /v chkdsk b:
To include an explanatory comment before the prompt command in a config.sys file, type:
rem Set prompt to indicate current directory
prompt $p$g
To provide a comment about what a script does, type:
rem The commands in this script set up 3 drives.
rem The first drive is a primary partition and is
rem assigned the letter D. The second and third drives
rem are logical partitions, and are assigned letters
rem E and F.
create partition primary size=2048
assign d:
create partition extended
create partition logical size=2048
assign e:
create partition logical
assign f:
For multi-line comments, use conditional execution:
Rem/||(
The REM statement evaluates to success,
so these lines will never be executed.
Keep in mind that you will need to escape closing parentheses
within multi-line comment blocks like shown in this example. ^)
)
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