Udhayakumar
Udhayakumar

Reputation: 47

Multiple sed -e command usage in linux

I am trying to understand the below command. Looked many tutorials and references. Can anyone help What actually it does.

 sed -e '$d' -e '1,1d' File1 >File2

Upvotes: 1

Views: 74

Answers (1)

jijinp
jijinp

Reputation: 2672

$d wil delete the last line

To delete lines between n and m use n,md. ie. 1,1d is same as 1d, which deletes the first line

So sed -e '$d' -e '1,1d' File1 >File2 will remove first and last line from File1 and send to file2

Upvotes: 2

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