Stephen Biggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Greetings all, > > How do I enter in multi-line log messages when I want to commit?
There are two typical ways to do this. Use either cat <<EOF > logmessage This is a multiline log message. EOF cvs commit -F logmessage or cvs commit -m 'This is a multiline log message.' to do your commit. > I tried using "\n", "\\n", "^L" in the quoted text string for the "-m" > option but no go; all are on the same line with the quoted string in the > log message. Running bash on Linux, Redhat 8.0. I tried embedding for > bash using $'\n' but this whole string gets put into the log. Just use multiple lines in bash with your string broken across multiple lines. > Basically how do I embed 0xa characters directly into the command line > for the commit command? This might be more related to straight Linux > command line usage, and if this is off-topic, please excuse. Any > assistance would be appreciated. Enjoy! -- Mark _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs