How to remove the first and last two characters from a text file using sed?

Question

I have a text file like this

abcdefg
abcdefg
abcdefg
abcdefg

How to remove the first and last two characters from each line using sed? I would like to get the result as follows

bcde
bcde
bcde
bcde

+3

Joel May 11 '12 at 8:45

2 answers

This might work for you:

sed 's/^.\|..$//g' file

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potong May 11 '12 at 9:21

codaddict · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-11T08:48:49+0000

sed  's/^.\(.*\)..$/\1/'  file