Manipulate a plist from the command line

Since OS X 10.5 a command called PlistBuddy has been available.

It's useful for things like extracting the version number out of your Info.plist during a Run Script Build Phase.

PlistBuddy wasn't in my existing path, I found it at /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy

Example Usage

/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Print :CFBundleVersion" Info.plist

Outputs: 0.14, or whatever the value of the CFBundleVersion key in Info.plist is.

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Posted in Development, iPhone, Software, Technology on January 28th, 2010 at 10:01am

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