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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Head and Tail in One Line Post 302131587 by Perderabo on Sunday 12th of August 2007 04:42:47 PM
Old 08-12-2007
I think you want something like:

awk 'NR == 1 { line1=$0} END { print "line one is " , line1 , " last line is " $0 }' data.file
sed '1d;$d' data.file
 

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PACKET.RECORD(1)						packet.record 1.0.1						  PACKET.RECORD(1)

NAME
packet.record - Record module DESCRIPTION
Provides the object for a record and the string representation of the record in a tcpdump trace file. Record object attributes: Record( index = Frame number length_inc = Number of bytes included in trace length_orig = 1 msecs = 905320, seconds = 1349747491, secs = 4.165262937545776, ) CLASSES
class Record(baseobj.BaseObj) Record object Usage: from packet.record import Record x = Record() Methods defined here: --------------------- __str__(self) String representation of object The representation depends on the verbose level set by debug_repr(). If set to 0 the generic object representation is returned. If set to 1 the representation of the object is condensed to display the frame number and the timestamp: '57 0.530957 ' If set to 2 the representation of the object also includes the number of bytes on the wire, number of bytes captured and a little bit more verbose: SEE ALSO
baseobj(1) BUGS
No known bugs. AUTHOR
Jorge Mora (mora@netapp.com) NFStest 1.0.2 10 April 2013 PACKET.RECORD(1)
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