Need to Chop Header and Footer record from input file

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi, I need to chope the header and footer record from an input file and make a new output file, please let me know how i can do it in unix.thanks.

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You can use sed to print only those lines that are needed.

Or you can use grep similarily.

Vino

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You can use grep -v "keyword" >outfile where keyword is present in your header and footer

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If your header and footer are just one record length, you can use sed :

sed '1d;$d' input_file > output_file

This command delete firstrecord (1d) and last record ($d).

Jean-Pierre.

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Thanks a lot to all....for quick reply. ur suggestions are working well...i m using sed command given by aigles.Thanks once again buddy. Bye