How to change svn:externals from bash file non-interactive

Question

I have multi externals need to be set within a file externals.txt and I attempt to change the svn:externals from a bash:

svn pe svn:externals svn://hostname/branchname -F extenals.txt

But the command throws out an error:

svn: E205007: None of the environment variables SVN_EDITOR, VISUAL or EDITOR are set, and no 'editor-cmd' run-time configuration option was found

I don't want to set the EDITOR because that would make this action to be interactive. I want to this bash script would run automatically.

How to make a bash to change the svn:externals without user interactive?

Answer 1

Use

svn ps svn:externals svn://hostname/branchname -F extenals.txt

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