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Old 05-27-2009
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sed:

Code:
sed '/^<JOB/,/^\/JOB/!d; /^<\/*JOB/d' infile

awk:

Code:
awk '/^<JOB/,/^\/JOB/ {if ( $0 ~ /^<\/*JOB/ ) {next} else {print}}' infile