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sudo plutil -s ~/Library/Preferences/*.plist

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4 Responses to ".plist Checker"

1. | Reply Eric
   Posted 07 Dec 2004 at 11:53pm #
   

   You shouldn't run it as root if you're only checking ~/Library/Preferences. And there are plist files in subdirectories of that directory, so you might want to do something like 'cd ~/Library/Preferences; find . -name '*.plist' -print0 | xargs -0 plutil -s' instead.

2. | Reply Mark Glossop
   Posted 08 Dec 2004 at 8:51am #
   

   Guess I'll quit lurking and post something for once 🙂

   I've had to do similar things on our file servers at work before we do OS upgrades to our SOE; checking plists for sanity *before* you fix them is IMHO a Good Idea�. Obviously that's one situation where you'd need to run the command as root.

   cd ~/Library/Preferences; find . -name "*plist" -exec plutil -s {} \;

   Not sure why you'd be using xargs however. This will do just as well - but then I've never used xargs much 🙂

3. | Reply Eric
   Posted 08 Dec 2004 at 10:10pm #
   

   I used xargs because I can never remember the right syntax for -exec.

4. | Reply Erik J. Barzeski
   Posted 08 Dec 2004 at 10:14pm #
   

   Heh, I can never remember the syntax for xargs. 🙂