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:
literals.

IMPLEMENTATION NOTES

     1       Quoted strings in the keypath is a GNUStep extension.

     2       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.