Shell Programming and Scripting

That script does exactly that, though it could be made more robust, e.g.:

Code:

sed "/host $Hostname /,/}/d" FILENAME

In order be able to give you any more help, you must answer the questions I asked.

 awk '{ if ($0 ~ /^host/) { print $1, $2} }' filename > newfilename

That just prints the lines beginning with "host".

An awk script to do what the OP wants would be:

Code:

awk -v host="$Hostname" '
$2 == host,/}/ { next }
{ print }' FILENAME