How to delete every nth line in a file in Linux?

How to delete or remove every nth line in a file? The requirement is to remove every 3rd line in the file.

Let us consider a file with the below content.

$ cat file
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1. awk solution :

$ awk 'NR%3' file
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NR%3 will be true for any line number which is not multiple of 3, and hence the line numbers which are multiple's of 3 does not get printed.
Note: NR%3 is same as NR%3!=0

2. Perl:

$ perl -lne 'print if $.%3 ;' file
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Same logic as awk solution. $. in perl contains the line number of the file.

3. sed:

$ sed 'n;n;d;' file
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n commands prints the current line and reads the next line. Hence 2 consecutive n's result in 2 lines getting printed with the 3rd line in the pattern space. d command deletes the line(3rd line) which is present in the pattern space. And this continues till the end of the file.

4. Bash Shell script:

$ x=0
$ while read line
> do
>   ((x++))
>   [ $x -eq 3 ] && { x=0; continue; }
>   echo $line
> done < file
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A simple logic of incrementing a variable by 1 after every line is processed. When the count becomes 3, the particular line is not printed and the counter is reset.