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Old 12-22-2010
Have to exclude the first and last line of the file : help me
hi , i am very new to perl . scriptting.. pllease can any one help me ...pleaseeeeeee


i ll have a file which look likes
Code:
123 |something |567 
456 |welcome |789 
457 |inboxpost |790 
. 
. 
123 |something |567


i have to execute all the lines in the file except the first and the last.///
can u give me idea and how to proceed with this...
Last edited by Scott; 12-22-2010 at 12:56 PM.. Reason: Code tags; formatting.
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Old 12-22-2010
Code:
sed -n '$!{2,$p;}' yourfile

Code:
grep -v ^123 yourfile

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Old 12-22-2010
Code:
sed -n '2,$p' input_file | sed '$d'

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Old 12-22-2010
Code:
awk 's{print s}NR-1{s=$0}' file

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Old 12-22-2010
Code:
sed '1d;$d' file

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Old 12-22-2010
ya thanks for the reply.. but can u tell me can i use this command inside a perl script ?? wont it give error /
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Old 12-22-2010
remove first row
perl -pi -e '$_ = "" if ($. == 1);' ${UR_FILE}
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