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-Macdonald
<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>.