Delete particular line occurence having target string

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Assume a file with below contents
$cat file1
Line1
Line2
Something!
Line3

Now I wanted to search keyword 'Line' and delete only the second matching line i.e., 'Line2'

I am aware to delete all the matching lines as below.

$sed -i '/Line/d' file1

Please help me!!

Posted 19-Nov-15 1:26am

krishna kishore58

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Richard MacCutchan 19-Nov-15 7:58am

You could try looking at awk and grep as more powerful commands for this sort of task.

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