Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Frends,

I am need of a small shell script. Kindly any body help me by giving me a small shell script to read first line in a file and extract date from the first line
and store it in a variable...
and after storing it in a variable the first and the last line of the file has to be deleted..



file format

#EOD rate on 20050403 on <time>
.
.
.
.
data
.
.

#EOF

Thanx in advance.!!!

Kavi

head -1 filename will get the first line.
assuming only the first and last lines are the commented ones, this will strip them out: grep -v '^#' filename > newfile

to remove the first line of the file.

Code:

sed "1 d" file1

If last line has no new line char

to remove the last line,

Code:

sed "$ d" file1