[Casper] user defaults

[Ryan Harter]

I'm not sure you'll be able to even do that with defaults.  The  
defaults man page says:

"BUGS
      Defaults can be structured in very complex ways, making it  
difficult for the user to enter them with this command."

That is a perfect candidate for PlistBuddy, another plist modifier  
that works from the command line.  In OS X Leopard PlistBuddy is  
included (/usr/libexec), but in previous versions you would have to  
find in in a package receipt or something.  There is a bit of  
documentation about this on the web.

In our Tiger base image, I copy PlistBuddy to /usr/bin so that I know  
it will always be in the path; now that we are using Leopard this is  
unnecessary.

Ryan Harter
UW - Stevens Point
Workstation Developer
715.346.2716
Ryan.Harter at uwsp.edu

On Feb 11, 2009, at 1:46 PM, Jeremy Matthews wrote:

> If you have a .plist file that is treed-out...multiple levels, what is
> the syntax for modifying a value on a sub-level?
>
> Lets say that it is structured as so:
>
> Root
> - Dictionary 1
> - Dictionary 2
> 	- Array 1
> 		- Item 1
> 		- Item 2
>
> defaults write somepreffile -dict "Dictionary 1" -array "Array 1"
> "Item 1" value
> ?
>
> Thanks,
> j
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