Using sed to remove a block of text

Question

I have a block of text that looks like this:

    <!-- BOF CLEAN --> ... a bunch of stuff      <!-- EOF CLEAN --> 

I'd like to remove this entire block. What's the sed command?

Answer 1

$ cat text  abc     <!-- BOF CLEAN --> ... a bunch of stuff     <!-- EOF CLEAN --> def $ sed '/<!-- BOF CLEAN -->/,/<!-- EOF CLEAN -->/d' text  abc def 

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