02-07-2013
The problem with your awk program is this: /^[0-9]/
You are looking for lines that are starting with number but there aren't any!! So you will not get any o/p.
In my awk program I am looking for !/HEADER/&&!/TRAILER/ - lines that does not contain pattern HEADER & TRAILER
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