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
     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.


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
     capabilities around Mac OS X 10.13.

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