excluding first and last lines from sed /START/,/END/

Question

Consider the input:

=sec1=
some-line
some-other-line

foo
bar=baz

=sec2=
c=baz

If I wish to process only =sec1= I can for example comment

Answer 1

Another way would be

sed '/begin/,/end/ {
       /begin/n
       /end/ !p
     }'

/begin/n -> skip over the line that has the "begin" pattern
/end/ !p -> print all lines that don't have the "end" pattern

Taken from Bruce Barnett's sed tutorial http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html#toc-uh-35a