Re: Plan E from Outer Space
Re: Plan E from Outer Space
- Subject: Re: Plan E from Outer Space
- From: John Baltutis <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:54:04 -0700
On 6/17/09, Scott Babcock <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> You may want to check out the 'PlistBuddy' utility as an alternative to
>'defaults'. The 'defaults' utility is extremely weak at dealing with anything
>other than simple values in root-level keys. 'PlistBuddy' has a comparatively
>rich set of capabilities. This is an Apple utility that gets included with
>every updater they've shipped since at least the Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) days,
>and it looks like they're finally going to include it in the standard
>distribution in Snow Leopard. I don't know how 'PlistBuddy' interacts with the
>specified plist. If it uses NSUserDefaults, you should be able to modify
>settings of active applications. Otherwise, you'll need to make sure the
>application isn't running when you're making your changes.
See <http://prowiki.isc.upenn.edu/wiki/Manipulating_Plists> for a good write up
on defaults, plists, and PlistBuddy.
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