diff --git a/packages/app-cli/app/app.js b/packages/app-cli/app/app.js
index 28472819d..d74f49622 100644
--- a/packages/app-cli/app/app.js
+++ b/packages/app-cli/app/app.js
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ const Tag = require('@joplin/lib/models/Tag').default;
 const Setting = require('@joplin/lib/models/Setting').default;
 const { reg } = require('@joplin/lib/registry.js');
 const { fileExtension } = require('@joplin/lib/path-utils');
-const { splitCommandString } = require('@joplin/lib/string-utils');
+const { splitCommandString, splitCommandBatch } = require('@joplin/lib/string-utils');
 const { _ } = require('@joplin/lib/locale');
 const fs = require('fs-extra');
 const { cliUtils } = require('./cli-utils.js');
@@ -390,7 +390,8 @@ class Application extends BaseApplication {
 	async commandList(argv) {
 		if (argv.length && argv[0] === 'batch') {
 			const commands = [];
-			const commandLines = (await fs.readFile(argv[1], 'utf-8')).split('\n');
+			const commandLines = splitCommandBatch(await fs.readFile(argv[1], 'utf-8'));
+
 			for (const commandLine of commandLines) {
 				if (!commandLine.trim()) continue;
 				const splitted = splitCommandString(commandLine.trim());
diff --git a/packages/lib/StringUtils.test.js b/packages/lib/StringUtils.test.js
index 31c18eeda..2c29a601a 100644
--- a/packages/lib/StringUtils.test.js
+++ b/packages/lib/StringUtils.test.js
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 /* eslint-disable no-unused-vars */
 
+const { splitCommandBatch } = require('./string-utils');
 const StringUtils = require('./string-utils');
 
 describe('StringUtils', function() {
@@ -53,4 +54,26 @@ describe('StringUtils', function() {
 		});
 	}));
 
+	it('should split the command batch by newlines not inside quotes', (async () => {
+		const eol = '\n';
+		const testCases = [
+			['',
+				['']],
+			['command1',
+				['command1']],
+			['command1 arg1 arg2 arg3',
+				['command1 arg1 arg2 arg3']],
+			[`command1 arg1 'arg2${eol}continue' arg3`,
+				[`command1 arg1 'arg2${eol}continue' arg3`]],
+			[`command1 arg1 'arg2${eol}continue'${eol}command2${eol}command3 'arg1${eol}continue${eol}continue' arg2 arg3`,
+				[`command1 arg1 'arg2${eol}continue'`, 'command2', `command3 'arg1${eol}continue${eol}continue' arg2 arg3`]],
+			[`command1 arg\\1 'arg2${eol}continue\\'continue' arg3`,
+				[`command1 arg\\1 'arg2${eol}continue\\'continue' arg3`]],
+		];
+
+		testCases.forEach((t) => {
+			expect(splitCommandBatch(t[0])).toEqual(t[1]);
+		});
+	}));
+
 });
diff --git a/packages/lib/string-utils.js b/packages/lib/string-utils.js
index 28af8deed..6309a4031 100644
--- a/packages/lib/string-utils.js
+++ b/packages/lib/string-utils.js
@@ -210,6 +210,59 @@ function splitCommandString(command, options = null) {
 	return args;
 }
 
+function splitCommandBatch(commandBatch) {
+	const commandLines = [];
+	const eol = '\n';
+
+	let state = 'command';
+	let current = '';
+	let quote = '';
+	for (let i = 0; i < commandBatch.length; i++) {
+		const c = commandBatch[i];
+
+		if (state === 'command') {
+			if (c === eol) {
+				commandLines.push(current);
+				current = '';
+			} else if (c === '"' || c === '\'') {
+				quote = c;
+				current += c;
+				state = 'quoted';
+			} else if (c === '\\') {
+				current += c;
+				if (i + 1 < commandBatch.length) {
+					current += commandBatch[i + 1];
+					i++;
+				}
+			} else {
+				current += c;
+			}
+		} else if (state === 'quoted') {
+			if (c === quote) {
+				quote = '';
+				current += c;
+				state = 'command';
+			} else if (c === '\\') {
+				current += c;
+				if (i + 1 < commandBatch.length) {
+					current += commandBatch[i + 1];
+					i++;
+				}
+			} else {
+				current += c;
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	if (current.length > 0) {
+		commandLines.push(current);
+	}
+	if (commandLines.length === 0) {
+		commandLines.push('');
+	}
+
+	return commandLines;
+}
+
 function padLeft(string, length, padString) {
 	if (!string) return '';
 
@@ -307,4 +360,4 @@ function scriptType(s) {
 	return 'en';
 }
 
-module.exports = Object.assign({ formatCssSize, camelCaseToDash, removeDiacritics, substrWithEllipsis, nextWhitespaceIndex, escapeFilename, wrap, splitCommandString, padLeft, toTitleCase, urlDecode, escapeHtml, surroundKeywords, scriptType, commandArgumentsToString }, stringUtilsCommon);
+module.exports = Object.assign({ formatCssSize, camelCaseToDash, removeDiacritics, substrWithEllipsis, nextWhitespaceIndex, escapeFilename, wrap, splitCommandString, splitCommandBatch, padLeft, toTitleCase, urlDecode, escapeHtml, surroundKeywords, scriptType, commandArgumentsToString }, stringUtilsCommon);