Re: plists from the commandline

[Dennis Leeuw]

Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> On 17 Jan 2006, at 08:44, Dennis Leeuw wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am struggeling with plists. It would be nice if 'controller'  could 
> > use plists to find out everything there is to know about a  certain 
> > installed piece of software. But I do not understand how I  can access 
> > e.g. the Info-gnustep.plist. There seems to be no way I  can feed 
> > defaults with a file.
> >
> > Is this correct or am I missing something?
>
>
> Not sure what you want ... perhaps to extract the value of a field  from 
> a plist file containing a serialised dictionary?
> AFAIK there is no command-line tool to do that ... though writing one  
> would be easy.
> If you want, I could do one to take a single argument (the key to use  
> for extraction) and act as a filter taking the original property list  
> as standard input and writing the extracted value as standard output  or 
> something similar.

What I want is to have a plist that e.g. contains:
ApplicationName = "GWorkspace"
Daemons = "fswatcher ddbd"
Tools = "indexer lsfupdater resizer searchtool"
Bundles = "inspector finder extinfo thumb"
Frameworks = "FSNode Inspector"
Headers = "FSNode Inspector"
Libraries = "libDBKit libFSNode libInspector"
Defaults = "GWorkspace fswatcher ddbd thumbnailer"
UserSettings = "Library/GWorkspace Library/ddbd Library/Thumbnails 
Library/Desktop"

And I want one of the contents to be outputted so it can be used in a 
shell script e.g. like

# cat plist | tool ApplicationName
GWorkspace

So if you could create a little tool that can do that... that would be 
great! Since I have no clue where to start.

Thanks,

Dennis



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