in reply to Deleting first and last TWO(2) lines of a text file
HEAD=`head -1 myfile.txt` TAIL=`tail -1 myfile.txt` grep -v $HEAD myfile.txt|grep -v $TAIL>myfile.txt~ mv myfile.txt~ myfile.txt
Untested code. Needs some debugging.
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