You can use 'propedit --editor-cmd=script.sh **/', where script.sh appends '*.o' to argv[1].
Another example, the following is a "Fix typo in the log message" idiom: % svn propedit --revprop -r69426 --editor-cmd 'sed -i s/foo/bar/' svn:log Steve Cohen wrote on Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 12:29:58 -0600: > I have a need to define a number of svn:ignore patterns in my project. > > Some are specific directories somewhere in my project tree. Others are > particular file types created by a build process such as *.o which may > be found in any number of directories. > > However, the svn propset command only allows the recursive -R switch to > be applied to the entire set of values for the svn:ignore property. > Whereas what is needed is to be able to apply the recursive switch to > the VALUE(e.g. *.o), not the KEY (e.g. svn:ignore). Is there any way of > achieving this? There doesn't appear to be one. Yet without it, > svn:ignore is useless, or at least too cumbersome to be used well. > > Steve Cohen