cut for whole lines

[Nathan Aubrey]

On Wednesday 31 October 2007 03:46:21 pm Craig White wrote:
> I am trying to script reading the table info from postgres into a file.
>
> I need to get rid of the first 2 and last 2 lines and it should be easy
> but obviously cut is for grabbing bits of lines where I need to remove
> the whole line.
>
> # cat my_tables.txt
>        tablename
> -----------------------
>  engine_schema_info
>  plugin_schema_info
> ...snipped here...
>  services
> (43 rows)
>
> I need to lose the top 2 lines:
>       tablename
> ---------------
>
> and the bottom two lines
> (43 rows)
> and a blank line (though this would probably be OK)
>

try this

cat my_tables.txt | tail -n +2 | head -n -2