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plutil

  • Read plist files
  • Similar to "defaults" command
# read content from a binary plist
plutil -p ~/Library/Preferences/com.googlecode.iterm2.plist

# Convert binary → XML (readable) -- in-place
plutil -convert xml1 ~/Library/Preferences/com.googlecode.iterm2.plist

# Convert back to binary -- in-place
plutil -convert binary1 ~/Library/Preferences/com.googlecode.iterm2.plist