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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Strip 3 header lines and 4 trailer lines Post 302110038 by anbu23 on Friday 9th of March 2007 02:36:48 PM
Old 03-09-2007
Code:
sed -e :a -e '$d;N;2,4ba' -e 'P;D'

$d;N;2,4ba
N appends second line to pattern space. Since second line is in pattern space 2,4ba makes control to shift to -e :a.
Then N appends third line to pattern space. 2,4ba makes control shift to -e :a.
Then N appends fourth line to pattern space and control is shifted to -e :a.
If the fourth line is the last line then $d deletes all the lines in the pattern space else N appends fifth line to pattern space.
Now 2,4ba is not satisfied then P is executed to print the first line in pattern space and this line is then deleted by D command.
Then control is shifted to start of commands. If fifth line is last line then $d deletes all the lines in the pattern space and continues to till the end of file.
 

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