1PLDES(1)                     GNUstep System Manual                    PLDES(1)
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NAME

6       pl, pldes, plser, plmerge, plparse, pl2link  - property list tools
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SYNOPSIS

9       pldes filename(s)
10       plget key[morekeys]
11       plser filename(s)
12       plmerge [ destination-file ] [ input-file(s) ]
13       plparse filename(s)
14       pl2link input-file [ destination-file ]
15       pl -input [ input-file ]  -output [ destination-file ]
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DESCRIPTION

19       Property   lists  in  GNUstep  are  hierarchical  lists  of  values  or
20       attribute-value  pairs.   Programmatically  they  are  represented   by
21       instances  of the NSString, NSData, NSArray, or NSDictionary (most com‐
22       mon) class (which may contain other instances of such classes).   These
23       instances can be serialized as binary objects to form a persistent rep‐
24       resentation.  In addition, there  are  two  alternative  human-readable
25       representations.   The  first,  utilized in NeXTstep and OpenStep, uti‐
26       lizes a text format with equals signs expressing attribute-value  bind‐
27       ings  and set braces expressing hierarchical organization.  The second,
28       often (uninformatively) referred to as "plist" format, is in XML and is
29       used  by  Mac OS X.  The tools described here are utilities for manipu‐
30       lating the various persistent property list representations as files.
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32       pldes filename(s)
33           Converts a binary serialised property list (class  instance)  to  a
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37           Reads a text representation of a dictionary in property list format
38           as standard input, extracts the string value held in  that  dictio‐
39           nary with the specified key, and writes the result to standard out‐
40           put.  Multiple keys may be used to extract values from nested  dic‐
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44           Converts a text representation of a property list to a binary seri‐
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51           Checks that each file contains a valid  text  representation  of  a
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55           Produces  a  desktop link file for KDE and Gnome for the given text
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59           Takes the serialized plist represented by input-file and outputs it
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SEE ALSO

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HISTORY

71       Written 1999-2000.
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73       This manual page first appeared in gnustep-base 1.9.2 (March 2004).
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AUTHORS

76       pldes, plget, plparse, plser were written  by  Richard  Frith-Macdonald
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82       pl2link was written by Fred Kiefer <FredKiefer@gmx.de>.
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84       pl was written by Gregory Casamento <greg_casamento@yahoo.com>.
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