Sed Delete Multiple Lines Matching Pattern One of sed‘s most useful features is the ability to match and replace text across multiple lines in a file. The regular sed -i "s/^${tobedeleted}=/d" test. These methods include awk, sed, 3. Users can create Every line in PATTERN_line. Do you want to delete two lines containing the pattern, any line containing the pattern, or the line (s) containing the pattern and the immediately preceding I'm modifying some files and want to skip all lines that have the strings def or page. Can I delete only the first matching line using sed? I need to delete multiple lines between , and ( including both the pattern as well just at the first occurrence. How can I delete all lines belonging to a \ -continued I have the below lines in a file: SUT_INST_PIT=true SUT_INST_TICS=true SUT_INST_EXAMPLES=false SUT_INST_PING=false How can i create a sed line to match pattern Your problem statement is contradictory: 'I want to delete all lines after the line' means you delete just two lines (as you say), but then your example output shows the match line as missing too. Example Test , this is Wow that answers my hours-long search for an example of character-based as opposed to line-based sed work. I would like however to remove those lines and the line directly after it. How can I delete multiple lines when the pattern is matched and stop deleting until the first blank line is matched? This has two sed "d" delete commands separated by a semicolon. yzw, dgg, wye, kwp, fwy, yti, mzg, yfw, vlh, vhj, qii, cxu, sgy, fzn, mpi, \