NAME
plio, pldes, plser, plmerge, plparse, pl2link - property list tools
SYNOPSIS
pldes filename(s)
plget key[morekeys]
plser filename(s)
plmerge [ destination-file ] [ input-file(s) ]
plparse filename(s)
pl2link input-file [ destination-file ]
plio -input [ input-file ] -output [ destination-file ]
DESCRIPTION
Property lists in GNUstep are hierarchical lists of values or
attribute-value pairs. Programmatically they are represented by
instances of the NSString, NSData, NSArray, or NSDictionary (most
common) class (which may contain other instances of such classes).
These instances can be serialized as binary objects to form a
persistent representation. In addition, there are two alternative
human-readable representations. The first, utilized in NeXTstep and
OpenStep, utilizes a text format with equals signs expressing
attribute-value bindings and set braces expressing hierarchical
organization. The second, often (uninformatively) referred to as
"plist" format, is in XML and is used by Mac OS X. The tools described
here are utilities for manipulating the various persistent property
list representations as files.
pldes filename(s)
Converts a binary serialised property list (class instance) to a
text representation.
plget key
Reads a text representation of a dictionary in property list format
as standard input, extracts the string value held in that
dictionary with the specified key, and writes the result to
standard output. Multiple keys may be used to extract values from
nested dictionaries.
plser filename(s)
Converts a text representation of a property list to a binary
serialized representation.
plmerge [ destination-file ] [ input-file(s) ]
Merges text property lists into a single property list
plparse filename(s)
Checks that each file contains a valid text representation of a
property list.
pl2link input-file [ destination-file ]
Produces a desktop link file for KDE and Gnome for the given text
representation of a property list.
plio -input [ input-file ]
Takes the serialized plist represented by input-file and outputs it
to standard output.
plio -output [ destination-file ]
Takes a plist from standard input and serializes it into
destination-file.
SEE ALSO
defaults(1)
HISTORY
Written 1999-2000.
This manual page first appeared in gnustep-base 1.9.2 (March 2004).
AUTHORS
pldes, plget, plparse, plser were written by Richard Frith-McDonald
<rfm@gnu.org>.
plmerge was written by Jonathan Gapen
<jagapen@whitewater.chem.wisc.edu>.
pl2link was written by Fred Kiefer <FredKiefer@gmx.de>.
pl (renamed to plio in Debian) was written by Gregory Casamento
<greg_casamento@yahoo.com>.