NAME

       plistutil - Convert a plist FILE from binary to XML format or vice-versa

SYNOPSIS

       plistutil [OPTIONS] [-i FILE] [-o FILE]

DESCRIPTION

       plistutil  allows  to  convert a file in Property List format from binary to XML format or
       vice-versa.

OPTIONS

       -i, --infile FILE
              Input FILE to convert from. If this argument is omitted or - is passed as filename,
              plistutil will read from stdin.

       -o, --outfile FILE
              Output  FILE to convert to. If this argument is omitted or - is passed as filename,
              plistutil will write to stdout.

       -f, --format [bin|xml]
              Force output format, regardless of input type. This is useful if the  input  format
              is  not  known,  but  the output format should always be in a specific format (like
              xml).

       -h, --help
              Prints usage information.

       -d, --debug
              Enabled extended debug output.

       -v, --version
              Print version information

EXAMPLES

       plistutil -i test.plist -o out.plist
              Convert test.plist and  write  to  out.plist.  If  test.plist  is  in  XML  format,
              out.plist  will  be  in binary format. If test.plist is in binary format, out.plist
              will be in XML format.

       plistutil -i test.plist -o out.plist -f bin
              Same as before, but the output will always be in binary format.

       plistutil -i test.plist -f xml
              Print test.plist as XML plist, regardless of the input format.

       plistutil -i test.plist -f xml -o -
              Same as before.

       cat test.plist |plistutil -f xml
              Take plist data from stdin - piped via cat - and write the output as XML to stdout.

AUTHORS

       Zach C.

       Martin Szulecki

       Nikias Bassen

ON THE WEB

       https://libimobiledevice.org

       https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libplist

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