Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi everyone,
I need to know how to remove a chunk of codes from a file
for instance i have couple of lines which are commented out of the file and i need to remove that block. here is the example



--#------------------------------------------------------------------
--# File name= audio_fe-e.vhd
--# Copyright(c) 2000 all rights reserved
--#------------------------------------------------------------------
--#
--#
--#
--#Comment:
--#----------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
-- Portions Copyright (c) 2007
-- All rights reserved
--
-- Proprietary and Confidential
--
-- Portions of this code embody materials and concepts which are confidential
-- to and is made available
-- solely pursuant to the terms of a written agreement with
-- .
--
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


......the rest of code

the bold and tilted area should be removed but i have no idea how to remove a block of information
Thanks

your commented line starts from "--" right??
then use sed -e '/^--/d' filename

There maybe a typo on the above suggestion, well if the data is consistent you might want to try this:

Code:

 sed '/^---/,/^---/d' file

thanks guys for quick reply.. it works just fine..

Hello Guys,
I have the same question but what if the two portion were commented out in the same way. lets say instead of having --# in the first portion, i also had ------------- like the second portion; therefore using the code that u have provided above will remove both portion, Is there anyway to use this command to distinguish from the two by maybe recognizing a word in the second portion
lets say this is the new version
--------------------------------------------------------------------
-- File name= audio_fe-e.vhd
-- Copyright(c) 2000 all rights reserved
--------------------------------------------------------------------
--
--
--
--Comment:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
-- Portions Copyright (c) 2007
-- All rights reserved
--
-- Proprietary and Confidential
--
-- Portions of this code embody materials and concepts which are confidential
-- to and is made available
-- solely pursuant to the terms of a written agreement with
-- .
--
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
the rest of the code is here

Hi! Again if the data is consistent you can try this,

Code:

sed -e '/^-- Portions/,/^---/d' -e '10,11d' file

This is an ugly solution and there maybe a better way than this.