in reply to Re^3: Deleting first and last lines of a text file
in thread Deleting first and last TWO(2) lines of a text file

It is taking so much time and not exiting when I run it as a one liner. 
perl -i.old -ne 'my $l = <>; print($l), next if $.==2; print "$_$l" un
+less eof' /home/file_20140319.txt

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