bash will handle the multiline in my case (try and see) but your example will handle if log contains "
- Stephen --- Sent from my Android phone, so random spelling mistakes, random nonsense words and other nonsense are a direct result of using swype to type on the screen On 21 Feb 2011 07:18, "Lorenz" <loren...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Stephen Connolly wrote: >>unix shell scripting could solved it for you >> >>bash >>for rev in $(svn log ... | sed -n -e "..."); do svn ps --revprop svn:log >>"$(svn pg svn:log -r $rev | sed -e "s/oldstring/newstring/g;")" ... ; done > > svn:log may be multi-line ... > > > ... but > >> svn pg svn:log --revprop -r $rev $url | sed ... | svn ps svn:log --revprop -r $rev --username ... --password ... --file - $url > > should do it (... == fill in the blanks 8-) > -- > > Lorenz >