NAME

       defaults - read or modify GNUstep user defaults

SYNOPSIS

       defaults [ action ]

DESCRIPTION

       The 'defaults' command lets you to read and modify a user's defaults.

       This program replaces the old NeXTstep style dread, dwrite, and dremove programs.

       If  you  have  access to another user's defaults database, you may include '-u username' before any other
       options to use that user's database rather than your own.

       defaults read [ domain [ key] ]

              read the named default from the specified domain.  If no 'key' is given - read all  defaults  from
              the  domain.  If no 'domain' is given - read all defaults from all domains.  A domain is either an
              application name, or "NSGlobalDomain", for system level defauts.  (Running programs can access two
              other  domains,  "NSArgumentDomain", for command line arguments, "NSRegistrationDomain", a second-
              chance domain in which "defaults for  defaults"  can  be  registered,  and  possibly  domains  for
              specific locales.)

       defaults readkey key

              read the named default from all domains.

       defaults write domain key value

              write 'value' as default 'key' in the specified domain.  'value' must be a property list in single
              quotes.

       defaults write domain dictionary

              write 'dictionary' as a replacement for the specified domain.  'dictionary'  must  be  a  property
              list in single quotes.

       defaults write

              reads standard input for defaults in the format produced by 'defaults read' and writes them to the
              database.

       defaults delete [ domain [ key] ]

              remove the specified default(s) from the domain.  If no 'key' is given - delete the entire domain.

       defaults delete

              read standard input for a series of lines containing pairs of domains and keys for defaults to  be
              deleted.

       defaults domains

              lists the domains in the database (one per line)

       defaults find word

              searches  domain  names, default names, and default value strings for those equal to the specified
              word and lists them on standard output.

       defaults plist

              output some information about property lists

       defaults help

              list options for the defaults command.

FILES

       ~/GNUstep/Defaults/.GNUstepDefaults
              holds defaults for a user

BUGS

       None known.

DIAGNOSTICS

       Hopefully self-explanatory.

HISTORY

       The 'defaults' command appeared in OpenStep  and  combined  the  capabilities  of  the  earlier  NeXTstep
       commands 'dread', 'dwrite', and 'dremove'.
       The GNUstep version was written in 1998.

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

AUTHORS

       defaults was written by Richard Frith-Macdonald <rfm@gnu.org>