Find file associated with GUI preference pane

glev2005 · #1 (**permalink**) 12-05-2008

The flat files associated with the GUI are very useful in scripting, like the DNS section of the network pref pane seems to be a front end for resolv.conf..

but sometimes I cannot seem to find the file associated with the GUI area

so i was wondering what is an easy way to do this? I was thinking to make a change in the preference pane, and then to search for recently modified files. How could I go about doing that?

Also does anyone have any other suggestions for how to go about finding the system files that correspond to the GUI preference panes?

Thanks!

VRoemer · #2 (**permalink**) 12-06-2008

I unfortunately do not have a solution for you but I do have a tool for you too look at.

hdiutil

which is a backend for Disk Utility

Example usage:

hdiutil detach /Volume/USB/

You would use this over a umount because using umount on certain things ( disk images for example ) causes them to hang and become unusable until a reboot.

take a look at man hdiutil

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