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I think I'd rather use sed than vi

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sed "/blabla\ 'toto'\ rep:\/titi\/toto\//d" infile > outfile

Notice that quoting and escapes have changed here...

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I think I'd rather use sed than vi

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sed "/blabla\ 'toto'\ rep:\/titi\/toto\//d" infile > outfile

Notice that quoting and escapes have changed here...
ok, and like this, is it ok for the allways unknown start of the line (*) ?

and is it possible without trouble that infile=outfile?
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Yes, you can add metacharacters such as

sed "/^.*blabla\ 'toto'\ rep:\/titi\/toto\/.*$/d" infile > outfile

Also; you can use the -i flag to sed if your version supports it to edit the file in-place, although I personally wouldn't recommend it - at least this way with redirection you keep your original intact incase you form your "sed" badly and ruin the file!

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