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How to delete lines from Vim? How to delete ranges of lines? How to delete lines by a given pattern? Let’s cover in this article different ways to delete lines in Vim editor.<\/p>\n

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    1. Delete a single line<\/a><\/li>\n
    2. Delete all lines<\/a><\/li>\n
    3. Delete multiple lines<\/a><\/li>\n
    4. Delete a range of lines<\/a><\/li>\n
    5. Delete lines by a given pattern<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Install Vim in Ubuntu\/Debian distributions<\/h3>\n

      # sudo apt install vim<\/p>\n

      Install Vim in RHEL\/CentOS distributions<\/h3>\n

      # yum install vim<\/p>\n

      1) Delete a single line
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      To delete a single line in Vim editor, follow the steps below<\/p>\n

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      1. Place the cursor to the beginning of the line<\/li>\n
      2. Press the ESC key.<\/li>\n
      3. Next, press dd i.e quick press letter ‘ d ‘ twice in quick succession.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        In the example below, pressing dd at the beginning of line 6 as shown below will delete the entire line.<\/p>\n

        \"delete<\/p>\n

        2) Delete all lines<\/h2>\n

        Below are the two ways to delete all lines.<\/p>\n

        :1,$d<\/p>\n

        or<\/p>\n

        :%d<\/p>\n

        3) Delete multiple lines<\/h2>\n

        To delete multiple lines<\/p>\n

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        1. place the cursor at the beginning of a line.<\/li>\n
        2. Prefix the dd command with the number of lines you want to delete below it. For example, if you want to delete 3 consecutive lines below line 3 press
          # 3dd<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          \"delete<\/p>\n

          4) Delete a range of lines<\/h2>\n

          If you want to delete a range of lines, say from line 3 to line 5, the syntax is as shown below<\/p>\n

          :[start_line_no],[end_line_no]d<\/p>\n

          In this case, Press ESC Then type the command below and hit Enter.<\/p>\n

          :3,5d<\/p>\n

          To delete the last line<\/p>\n

          :$d<\/p>\n

          To delete all lines before the current line<\/p>\n

          :1,.-1d<\/p>\n

          To delete all lines after the current line<\/p>\n

          :.+1,$d<\/p>\n

          5) Delete lines by a given pattern<\/h2>\n

          Finally, you can delete lines following a given pattern.<\/p>\n

          For instance, to delete lines that contain a certain word, press ESC and run<\/p>\n

          :g \/word\/d<\/p>\n

          In our case, to delete lines that contain the word “lazy”<\/p>\n

          :g \/lazy\/d<\/p>\n

          To delete every line that doesn’t contain the word “lazy”<\/p>\n

          :%g!\/lazy\/d
          \nor
          :v\/lazy\/d<\/p>\n

          To delete lines that begin with a certain letter, say ‘A’<\/p>\n

          :g\/^A\/d<\/p>\n

          If you want to delete lines that begin with a special character like $ sign, prefix the character with a backslash as shown<\/p>\n

          :g\/^$\/d<\/p>\n

          To get rid of all blank lines<\/p>\n

          :g\/^$\/d<\/p>\n

          Do you have any tips to delete vim lines? Hope this article helped you and please leave your comments.<\/p>\n

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