Re: plists from the commandline

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

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.