PLUTIL(1) General Commands Manual PLUTIL(1)NAME
plutil - A converter tool for binary or XML Apple property lists
SYNOPSIS
plutil -i|--infile in_file.plist -o|--outfile out_file.plist [--debug]
OPTION -i or --infile
The file to read in.
-o or --outfile
The file to convert to.
-d, -v or --debug
Provide extended debug information.
DESCRIPTION
plutil
AUTHOR
plutil was written by Zach C..
This manual page was written by Julien Lavergne <julien.lavergne@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
October 31, 2009 PLUTIL(1)
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PLUTIL(1) BSD General Commands Manual PLUTIL(1)NAME
plutil -- property list utility
SYNOPSIS
plutil [command_option] [other_options] file
...
DESCRIPTION
plutil can be used to check the syntax of property list files, or convert a plist file from one format to another. Specifying - as an input
file reads from stdin.
The first argument indicates the operation to perform, one of:
-help Show the usage information for the command and exit.
-p Print the property list in a human-readable fashion. The output format is not stable and not designed for machine parsing. The
purpose of this command is to be able to easily read the contents of a plist file, no matter what format it is in.
-lint Check the named property list files for syntax errors. This is the default command option if none is specified.
-convert fmt Convert the named file to the indicated format and write back to the file system. If the file can't be loaded due to invalid
syntax, the operation fails.
fmt is one of: xml1, for version 1 of the XML plist format binary1, for version 1 of the binary plist format json, for the
JSON format
There are a few additional options:
-- Specifies that all further arguments are file names
-s Don't print anything on success.
-r For JSON, add whitespace and indentation to make the output more human-readable.
-o path Specify an alternate path name for the result of the -convert operation; this option is only useful with a single file to be
converted. Specifying - as the path outputs to stdout.
-e extension Specify an alternate extension for converted files, and the output file names are otherwise the same.
DIAGNOSTICS
The plutil command exits 0 on success, and 1 on failure.
SEE ALSO plist(5)STANDARDS
The plutil command obeys no one's rules but its own.
HISTORY
The plutil command first appeared in Mac OS X 10.2.
Mac OS X August 30, 2002 Mac OS X
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Hi,
I wondered if it was possible to parse a plist file like this
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14586156/stuff/Bookmarks.plist
so it will afterwards look like this
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"... (0 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a bit of a vexing issue here and I'm not certain how best to go about it. Basically, I want to run a shell script and automate the user prompt of hitting 1 to fully uninstall Symantec Anti-Virus for OS X.
Would expect be the best way to do this? (5 Replies)
Hi!
I have a directory full of .plist type files from which I need to delete a line. Not every file contains the line, but of course I'd like to do it recursively. The line which I want to delete is:
<string>com.apple.PhotoBooth</string>
and looks like this in its native habitat:
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#!/bin/bash
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I am creating subversion pre commit hook on linux to run on client side but its not working and throwing an error -
alias svnbi="plutil *.plist|grep -v OK; if ; then svn ci -m $1 ; fi"
but when I run -
(test is $1 here)
svnbi test
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `test'
... (1 Reply)