Delete text between 2 patterns using sed

By xngo on February 21, 2019 

# Delete text between patterns, excluding the lines containing these 2 patterns:
sed '/PATTERN-1/,/PATTERN-2/{//!d}' input.txt
 
 
# Delete text between patterns, including the lines containing these 2 patterns:
sed '/PATTERN-1/,/PATTERN-2/d' input.txt
 
# To delete all the lines after PATTERN, use this
sed '/PATTERN/,$d' input.txt

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