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Remove text between headers while leaving headers intact
Hi,
I'm trying to strip all lines between two headers in a file:

### BEGIN ###

[Header 1]
Text to remove, contains all kinds of characters
...
Antispyware-Downloadserver.com (Germany)=http://www.antispyware-downloadserver.c
om/updates/
Antispyware-Downloadserver.com #2 (Germany)=http://www.antispyware-downloadserve
r.com/updates/
ComputerFixerTools.com (USA)=http://67.202.99.48/spybot/
Evertje Networks (Europe)=http://sbsd.mirror.evertjenetworks.nl/files/updates/
FastSpeedTest.com (USA)=http://fastspeedtest.net/mirrors/spybot/
...

[Header 2]
More stuff, more headers

### END ###

I've tried several different sed commands, and the results have been either nothing is removed, or the line [Header 2] is removed as well.

Sorry, I haven't saved a list of what I've tried; here is my most recent failed attempt though:

sed -e '/\[Header\ 1\]/,/\[Header\ 2\]/ { /^\[Header\ 2\]$/!d }

Any help would be appreciated, and thank you in advance =)
 
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

ns_geturl

ns_geturl(3aolserver)					    AOLserver Built-In Commands 				     ns_geturl(3aolserver)

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NAME

       ns_geturl - commands

SYNOPSIS

       ns_geturl URL ?headersSetId?
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DESCRIPTION

       This  command retrieves the contents of the specified URL. The URL must be a remote http server, or a file relative to the pageroot (begins
       with /).  It does not handle a relative request or follow redirects.  The headerSetId option is a variable containing  an  ns_set  Id  (not
       expanded with a $) used to store the remote server headers (see example).  ns_geturl only support HTTP version 1.0.

EXAMPLES

	      set page [ns_geturl "www.aolserver.com"]
	      ns_return 200 text/html $page

       This fetches the contents of www.aolserver.com and returns that page to the client.

	      set headers [ns_set new]
	      set page [ns_geturl "www.aolserver.com" headers]
	      for {set i 0} {$i < [ns_set size $headers]} {incr i} {
		 ns_puts "Key: [ns_set key $headers $i]"
		 ns_puts "Value: [ns_set value $headers $i]"
	      }

       This time, a blank headerset is passed to ns_geturl so we can retrieve the headers of the remote page, which we print out to the client.

	      set file [ns_geturl "/foo/bar.html"]
	      ns_return 200 text/html $file

       This example fetches the /foo/bar.html file relative to the pageroot and returns it to the client.

SEE ALSO

       nsd(1), info(n), ns_set(n), ns_httpget(n)

KEYWORDS

AOLserver								4.0						     ns_geturl(3aolserver)