What is the easiest way to remove 1st and last line from file with awk?

Question

I am learning awk/gawk. So recently I just try to solve any problem with it to gain more practice opportunities.

My coworker asked a question yesterday,

Answer 1

Let me suggest another solution. In case if you need custom N for top and bottom lines you can use tail and head commands:

awk '{print $1}'  | head -n -1 | tail -n+2

head -n -1 - removes last line

tail -n+2 - starts output from second line (removes 1 line)

Following command will remove 3 lines from top and bottom:

awk '{print $1}'  | head -n -3 | tail -n +4

Actually we don't even need awk here:

more | head -n -1 | tail -n +2

or

cat | head -n -1 | tail -n +2

Thanks to Igor Fobia for comment!