Shell Programming and Scripting

Odd that it does something different for all of us!

ajnabi's code works for me too.. at first I thought you wanted to delete the first line with the word OBJECT on it, then every line after it up to and including the next line with the word OBJECT on it, which is really easy to do but unfortunately isn't what you needed:

sed -e '/OBJECT/,//d' yourFile

right oombera,
This commands does the same what perderabo wrote and it is running fine ... it looked like to me it was deleting first line but when I saw it closely .. it was delelting from pattern to the next pattern and hence leaving the lines after it finds the pattern second time ...
so result lookes like it's delelting first line but actually it was deleting half the record..


cheers