Update: plutil in Erica Utilities has new features

Erica Sadun | 7:29 pm | November 5, 2007 | Update, Utilities, Software, iPod touch, iPhone

I just updated plutil in the Erica Utilities with several new features. You can now touch (-t) a new plist and create it at the command line. You can then populate the property list at the top level by using -s -v, for example to add the value “Hello World” for key “Greeting”, issue plutil -s “Greeting” -v “Hello World”. To recover that value, issue plutil -v ‘Greeting”.

Basically, this adds all the features of my mac-based plhelper utility to the iPhone/iPod touch-based plutil. And don’t forget, don’t use “-convert” with my version. I couldn’t figure out how to use multi-character switches. So stick with “-c”.

plutil: [command_option] [other_options] file...
Command options are (-l is the default):
 -h             show this message and exit
 -l             output a list of the properties
 -t             create new property list(s) and exit
 -c fmt         rewrite the property list in format
                fmt is one of xml1 binary1
 -v key         retrieve the value for key
 -s key         set the value for key with the option given in -v
                (always outputs to xml)
Other options are not yet implemented.