Invisible wrote:
> If you just wanted to remove the first and last line, wouldn't it take 
> less than 90 seconds to script it? Even in the most retarded scripting 
> language imaginable?

Probably not, since most of the time is spent waiting for the disk.

And yes, it would also require me knowing how many lines I wanted to 
trim, etc. And, as I said, there's some combination of keep/toss 
leading/trailing lines that for some reason you can't do with head and 
tail under Linux. One of those two is just missing one of the "line 
count" arguments, or something.

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