How to remove every fourth line in a file? Using UNIX commands

Question

What's the command which is used to remove every fourth line in a file? As these lines contain garbled characters.

Possible duplicate of [How can I delete every Xth line in a text file?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9894986/how-can-i-delete-every-xth-line-in-a-text-file) — Aserre, Dec 01 '17 at 08:56

Kaushik Nayak · Answer 1 · 2017-12-01T09:00:42.717

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Try this.

awk 'NR%4 != 0'  filename

edited Dec 01 '17 at 09:00

answered Dec 01 '17 at 08:55

Kaushik Nayak

What does the garbled content look like? Is it possible that you have an internationalisation issue, instead? – Dragonthoughts Dec 01 '17 at 08:57

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