How can i comment out a section between two particular lines

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

I want to find out which files under /etc have the the following section:

and then i would like to comment out the above section in all the files.
Please help.

2

I am using the # character at the begining of the line. change it to reflect your idea of commenting out.

awk ' BEGIN{ ok=0 }
        /BEGIN e-healthcare SETUP/ {print $0; ok=1; next}
        / END e-healthcare OAS SETUP/ {ok=0}
        ok==1 {printf(" #")}
        {print $0}' somefile > newfile

       # only if this works for you
        mv newfile somefile

to find files (under /etc ? really weird)

grep -l ' END e-healthcare OAS SETUP' /etc/*
3

Jim I like this.

4

Or if you want to include the headers as well:

sed '/BEGIN e-healthcare SETUP/,/END e-healthcare OAS SETUP/{s/^/# /;}' infile