bash - How to replace part of a text file between markers with another text file?

Say I have a text file like this:

# custom content section
a
b

### BEGIN GENERATED CONTENT
c
d
### END GENERATED CONTENT

I'd like to replace the portion between the GENERATED CONTENT tags with the contents of another file.

What's the simplest way to do this?

Answer

newContent=`cat new_file`
perl -0777 -i -pe "s/(### BEGIN GENERATED CONTENT\\n).*(\\n### END GENERATED CONTENT)/\$1$newContent\$2/s" existing_file