plistutil(1) General Commands Manual plistutil(1) (NAME) plistutil - plist XML JSON (SYNOPSIS) plistutil [OPTIONS] [-i FILE] [-o FILE] (DESCRIPTION) plistutil Property List ( ) XML JSON . (OPTIONS) -i, --infile FILE (FILE) . - plistutil stdin . -o, --outfile FILE (FILE) . - plistutil stdout . -f, --format [bin|xml|json|openstep] . ( xml json) . plist XML . JSON OpenStep . -p, --print FILE plist . -c, --compact JSON OpenStep: . (pretty-print) . -s, --sort . -h, --help . -d, --debug (debug) . -v, --version . (EXAMPLES) plistutil -i test.plist -o out.plist test.plist out.plist. test.plist XML out.plist . test.plist out.plist XML . plistutil -i test.plist -o out.plist -f bin . plistutil -i test.plist -f xml test.plist plist XML . plistutil -i test.plist -f xml -o - . plistutil -i test.plist -f json test.plist plist JSON . cat test.plist |plistutil -f xml plist (stdin) - cat (pipe) - XML stdout. (AUTHORS) Zach C. Martin Szulecki Nikias Bassen (ON THE WEB) https://libimobiledevice.org https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libplist plistutil(1)