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How to browse OS X preferences?
The posting mentions that "prefs files are now text-based XML and easily browsable." How does one, in the Terminal, open and browse these files, such as the "com.apple.internetconfig.plist" mentioned?
How to browse OS X preferences?
You can either use Apple's defaults command, or you can go into the Library/Preferences folder and just do cat com.something.someapp.plist and read that, though it takes some getting used to the property lists in the raw XML format before you can really read them easily.
How to browse OS X preferences?
to open a text based file in the terminal (like the plist files) you can do this:
How to browse OS X preferences?
While you can do this in the Terminal if you want, it's probably a lot easier to use Apple's graphical plist editor utility, which I think is part of the developer tools CD that comes with OS X.
How to browse OS X preferences?
If you have the graphical editor that is included in the developer stuff you can simply type in the terminal:
open prefsfile.plist
where prefsfile.plist is the preferences file you want to look at and the file will be opened in the graphical editor. (This works with most kinds of files actually)
Its much easier than trying to edit in a text editor.
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