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If all you want are sections whose first line begins with "ftp" and whose last line begins with "send":
sed -n '/^ftp/,/^send/p'

Regards,
Alister

With awk:
awk '/ftp/ || /user/ || /send/' file

Here is the code
cat filename | awk '
/ftp SERVER/{ print $0;
i = 1;
while ( i < 3 )
{ getline;
print $0;
i++;
...

Maybe:


[house@leonov] grep -A 2 '^ftp ' data.file
ftp SERVER
user UNAME PASS
send FILE_TO_BE_SENT
--
ftp SERVER1
user USER1 PASS1
send FILE_TO_BE_SENT_1

How many keywords do you have?
If they are not more,

$ egrep '^ftp|^user|^send' file
ftp SERVER
user UNAME PASS
send FILE_TO_BE_SENT
ftp SERVER1
user USER1 PASS1
send FILE_TO_BE_SENT_1
$ ...