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PLDES(1)						       GNUstep System Manual							  PLDES(1)

NAME

       plio, pldes, plser, plmerge, plparse, pl2link	 - property list tools

SYNOPSIS

       pldes filename(s)
       plget key[morekeys]
       plser filename(s)
       plmerge [ destination-file ] [ input-file(s) ]
       plparse filename(s)
       pl2link input-file [ destination-file ]
       plio -input [ input-file ]  -output [ destination-file ]

DESCRIPTION

       Property lists in GNUstep are hierarchical lists of values or attribute-value pairs.  Programmatically they are represented by instances of
       the NSString, NSData, NSArray, or NSDictionary (most common) class (which may contain other instances of such  classes).   These  instances
       can be serialized as binary objects to form a persistent representation.  In addition, there are two alternative human-readable representa-
       tions.  The first, utilized in NeXTstep and OpenStep, utilizes a text format with equals signs expressing attribute-value bindings and  set
       braces  expressing  hierarchical organization.  The second, often (uninformatively) referred to as "plist" format, is in XML and is used by
       Mac OS X.  The tools described here are utilities for manipulating the various persistent property list representations as files.

       pldes filename(s)
	   Converts a binary serialised property list (class instance) to a text representation.

       plget key
	   Reads a text representation of a dictionary in property list format as standard input, extracts the string value held in  that  dictio-
	   nary with the specified key, and writes the result to standard output.  Multiple keys may be used to extract values from nested dictio-
	   naries.

       plser filename(s)
	   Converts a text representation of a property list to a binary serialized representation.

       plmerge [ destination-file ] [ input-file(s) ]
	   Merges text property lists into a single property list

       plparse filename(s)
	   Checks that each file contains a valid text representation of a property list.

       pl2link input-file [ destination-file ]
	   Produces a desktop link file for KDE and Gnome for the given text representation of a property list.

       plio -input [ input-file ]
	   Takes the serialized plist represented by input-file and outputs it to standard output.

       plio -output [ destination-file ]
	   Takes a plist from standard input and serializes it into destination-file.

SEE ALSO

       defaults(1)

HISTORY

       Written 1999-2000.

       This manual page first appeared in gnustep-base 1.9.2 (March 2004).

AUTHORS

       pldes, plget, plparse, plser were written by Richard Frith-Macdonald <rfm@gnu.org>.

       plmerge was written by Jonathan Gapen  <jagapen@whitewater.chem.wisc.edu>.

       pl2link was written by Fred Kiefer <FredKiefer@gmx.de>.

       pl (renamed to plio in Debian) was written by Gregory Casamento <greg_casamento@yahoo.com>.

GNUstep 							    August 2003 							  PLDES(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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