Count No of Records in File without counting Header and Trailer Records

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

I have a flat file and need to count no of records in the file less the header and the trailer record.

I would appreciate any and all asistance

Thanks

Hadi Lalani

2

Guiguy,
Please, include all relevant information, such as a sample of
the file and tell us what is "header" and what is "trailer", so
that we may be able to help you.

3

it depends on how your file format is, usually, header and trailer make up 2 records..
so you can just wc -l and then minus 2 .