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vi or vim (vi improved) has powerful ways to delete line. This post gives some examples.
The command for delete is :d. Delete current line
dd
Delete line 10
:10d
Delete from start to line 30
:0,30d
Delete from line 50 to end ($)
:50,$d
Delete blank line (:g will execute a command on lines which match a regex. The regex is ‘blank line’)
:g/^$/d
