Bash working code to delete first or last line from file

Question

I saw the sed examples, but no matter how I write that it won\'t delete my first line. Actually, I did more tests and it won\'t delete my first line either, so

Answer 1

Because nobody gives it any love:

ed filename <<'END'
1d
$d
w
q
END

Answer 2

You can use the --in-place (-i) switch:

sed -i '$d' filename

Source: man sed

Answer 3

If your sed supports in-place editing, it's sed -e '1d' -e '$d' -i filename.

Answer 4

Try cat file1 | sed "1,1d; $d" > file2

Answer 5

sed -i '$ d' filename. The -i flag edits file in place.

Answer 6

Giving this answer since sed is not tagged.

head -`wc -l test2.cc | awk '{print ($1-1)}'` test2.cc