Re^3: Deleting first and last lines of a text file

in reply to Re^2: Deleting first and last lines of a text file
in thread Deleting first and last TWO(2) lines of a text file

Works for me ...

$ sed -e '1d;$d' jaxws/src/share/jaxws_classes/com/sun/xml/internal/me
+ssaging/saaj/soap/SOAPDocumentFragment.java > t
$ diff jaxws/src/share/jaxws_classes/com/sun/xml/internal/messaging/sa
+aj/soap/SOAPDocumentFragment.java t
1d0
< /*
45d43
< }
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Does your file have a newline as the last character ? You'll experience problems if not.

A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))

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