plutil(1) General Commands Manual plutil(1) NAME plutil -- Property list utility SYNOPSIS progname [-command] [-options] file DESCRIPTION The plutil utility can be used to edit property lists, to verify the syn- tax, or to convert from one format to another. If `-' is given as the file path, stdin and stdout are used. The first part is the action to perform, one of: -p Print the whole plist to stdout, in the human-readable GNUStep for- mat. -lint Verifies the plist can be parsed. -convert FMT Converts the plist to another format. `FMT' can be one of: xml1 Apple XML. binary1 Apple binary. openstep OpenStep (untyped human-readable). gnustep GNUStep (typed human-readable). json JSON (lossy human-readable). The NSPropertyListFormat names are accepted too. -insert PATH KEY Value The default action is `-lint.' The general options are: The plutil "keypath" is a dot-separated chain of keys for traversing a plist ob- ject. An empty keypath refers to the object itself. The format of keys conform to that of GNUStep plist string literals. IMPLEMENTATION NOTES Quoted strings in the keypath is a GNUStep extension. The Objective-C and Swift literal output formats are not yet implemented. EXIT STATUS EXAMPLES DIAGNOSTICS SEE ALSO pl(1) pldes(1) AUTHORS This version of plutil was written by Mingye Wang <arthur2e5@aosc.io>. plutil first appeared in Mac OS X 10.2. It received path-related capabili- ties around Mac OS X 10.13. FreeBSD 15.1 September 23, 2020 plutil(1)
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