plutil - Man Page

The plutil utility can be used to edit property lists, to verify the syntax, 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 format.

-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 object. An empty keypath refers to the object itself. The format of keys conform to that of GNUStep plist string literals.

• Quoted strings in the keypath is a GNUStep extension.

• The Objective-C and Swift literal output formats are not yet implemented.

pl(1) pldes(1)

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 capabilities around Mac OS X 10.13.