Removing Header and Footer from imported .csv

Question

I have 3 .csv files that I am combining into one. This bit of code works:

    Get-ChildItem 'C:\Scripts\testing\csvStuffer\temp\Individual.*.csv' | 
        ForEach-Object {Import-Csv $_} | 
        Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation 'C:\Scripts\testing\csvStuffer\temp\MergedCsvFiles.csv'

The problem is that each .csv file has a header and a footer. I do not want to keep the header or footer from any of the files. Any suggestions of what I need to add to the above code to remove the headers and footers??? Thanks!

Answer 1

This is not the most elegant solution but it worked for my test files.

Get-ChildItem 'C:\Scripts\testing\csvStuffer\temp\Individual.*.csv' | 
        ForEach-Object {
            $filecontent = get-content $_ | select-object -skip 1;
            $filecontent | select -First $($filecontent.length -1) | Set-Content -Path $_;
        };

Skipping the first line is easy with select-object. Dropping the last line requires a bit more work, but since get-content returns an array of lines, you can just grab all but the last element in that array.

Answer 2

Looks like alroc already gave an answer, but since I already had it written up I figured I'd post this too. It doesn't load it all into a variable, it just reads each file, strips the first and last line of the current file, and then pipes to out-file with -append on it.

gci 'C:\Scripts\testing\csvStuffer\temp\Individual.*.csv' | %{
$(gc $_.fullname|skip 1)|select -First ($(gc $_.fullname|skip 1).count-1)
}|Out-File -Append 'C:\Scripts\testing\csvStuffer\temp\MergedCsvFiles.csv'