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plutil — View, convert, validate, or edit property list ("plist") files. More information: <https://keith.git

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Problem

How to use the plutil command: View, convert, validate, or edit property list ("plist") files. More information: <https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/plutil.1.html>.

Solution

plutil — View, convert, validate, or edit property list ("plist") files. More information: <https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/plutil.1.html>.

Display the contents of one or more plist files in human-readable format:
plutil -p {{file1.plist file2.plist ...}}


Convert one or more plist files to XML format, overwriting the original files in-place:
plutil -convert xml1 {{file1.plist file2.plist ...}}


Convert one or more plist files to binary format, overwriting the original files in-place:
plutil -convert binary1 {{file1.plist file2.plist ...}}


Convert a plist file to a different format, writing to a new file:
plutil -convert {{xml1|binary1|json|swift|objc}} {{path/to/file.plist}} -o {{path/to/new_file.plist}}


Convert a plist file to a different format, writing to stdout:
plutil -convert {{xml1|binary1|json|swift|objc}} {{path/to/file.plist}} -o -

Code Snippets

Display the contents of one or more plist files in human-readable format

plutil -p {{file1.plist file2.plist ...}}

Convert one or more plist files to XML format, overwriting the original files in-place

plutil -convert xml1 {{file1.plist file2.plist ...}}

Convert one or more plist files to binary format, overwriting the original files in-place

plutil -convert binary1 {{file1.plist file2.plist ...}}

Convert a plist file to a different format, writing to a new file

plutil -convert {{xml1|binary1|json|swift|objc}} {{path/to/file.plist}} -o {{path/to/new_file.plist}}

Convert a plist file to a different format, writing to `stdout`

plutil -convert {{xml1|binary1|json|swift|objc}} {{path/to/file.plist}} -o -

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tldr-pages: osx/plutil

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