Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello Experts,

I am new at this and need some help. I am looking for a delete command that allows me after I grep for the hostname to delete all the lines between two characters. for example I want to delete the first line all the way up to the } character

host test019 {
hardware ethernet F:F:F:F:F:F;
fixed-address secap1019;
group Servers;
}

Thanks in advance.

No need for grep:

Code:

sed '/host test019/,/}/d' FILENAME

Thansk cfajohnson.

I tried the code and it did not work..I made a little change to it.. this is what i did..

sed '/host $Hostname/,/}/d' hosts.txt

is this correct?

Did it work? If so, it's correct.

But, no, it is not correct. Variables are not expanded inside single quotes.

Code:

sed "/host $Hostname/,/}/d" hosts.txt

No it did not work...Neither is this one working... Is there another command other than sed that can be used?

Thanks

What does did not work mean? What did happen?

What is the value of $Hostname?

Is there another command other than sed that can be used?
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You could use awk, but if the sed command is not working, then either you are not typing it exactly as shown or you are not describing what you want to do correctly.

Thanks again for your patience...As I said i'm new to this...Let me see if i can explain it a little better...I have a file with a list of host with different hostnames...The function in the script I want to do is delete a given host..So if i wanna delete a host for the host file I enter the host name and delete it...Below is a better look of how my host file looks.
So what i want to do is basically delete everything for any particular host.

Hope I made is a little clearer.
Thanks