As Firefox says, "well, this is embarrassing". It looks like I've misinterpreted lines which are actually patterns that pertain to a target on a previous line.
I think I did this because the blank lines are inconsistent Here is the command run without filtering through sed. Note that for whatever reason, *.pid does NOT have a blank line before it. 11:22~/Work$ svn propget svn:ignore -R core-api core-api/WebContent - answers.home core-api/WebContent/cdn - tmp core-api/WebContent/cdn/images - *.png core-api/WebContent/cdn/merchants - * core-api/WebContent/cdn/program_templates - * core-api/WebContent/docs - * core-api/php_includes/application/libraries - anet_1.1.8 core-api/php_uploads - invoices csv_imports core-api/support/crons/running - *.process *.pid core-api/support/post-install/snapshots - dev-core.trac_07 eric-production-122915.snapshot prod.20151216 scion-air-invoicing legacy-snapshot.template local-prod-runtime-fix snapshot.20160310 snapshot.0222 prod-core.20160214.snapshot core-api/support/post-install/snapshots/dev-core.baseline/config - prod-tunnel.db my-local.db core-api/support/post-install/snapshots/dev-core.baseline/data - branch.brad.201* branch.* -- Jeff Orrok, Sr. Software Engineer email: jor...@incentco.com cell: 303-995-0138 skype: jeffoire66