sed query

[ianholmes]

I have a load of files in a directory
eg /home/test
a b c ..... Z

Each file has 2 header records & 2 trailer records which I wish to remove, leaving only the data in between.
I then wish to copy all the output files to a different directory ie /home/test2

It will probably be something like

For file in $(/home/test/*)
do
{sed command}
done

but I do not know sed at all

Can anyone help ?
Many thanks

 

[feherke]

Hi

sed '1,2d;$d' /input/file | sed '$d' > /output/file

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[feherke]

Hi

sed -n '3{x;$q;/./p}' /input/file

Probably this not works with Unix [tt]sed[/tt]s. Tested with GNU [tt]sed[/tt].

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[ianholmes]

Many thanks
Working beautifully !