Service Uptime

#!/bin/bash
echo $((`date +%s`-`stat -c %Y /var/run/$1.pid`)) 

usage: servicetime snmpd
output: time in seconds

vi: multiline autoreplace (s/something\nsomething2//g)

vi -c "%s/.*network {$\n^}//g" -c "wq" test

It will find in file all empty network-sections and delete them.

network {
}