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NAME

6       defaults - read or modify GNUstep user defaults
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SYNOPSIS

10       defaults [ action ]
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DESCRIPTION

14       The 'defaults' command lets you to read and modify a user's defaults.
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16       This program replaces the old NeXTstep style dread, dwrite, and dremove
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19       If you have access to another user's defaults database, you may include
20       '-u  username'  before  any  other  options to use that user's database
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23       defaults read [ domain [ key] ]
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25              read the named default from the specified domain.  If  no  'key'
26              is given - read all defaults from the domain.  If no 'domain' is
27              given - read all defaults from all domains.  A domain is  either
28              an  application  name,  or  "NSGlobalDomain",  for  system level
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30              gumentDomain",  for  command  line arguments, "NSRegistrationDo‐
31              main", a second-chance domain in which "defaults  for  defaults"
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40              write 'value' as default 'key' in the specified domain.  'value'
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45              write 'dictionary' as a replacement for  the  specified  domain.
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FILES

83       ~/GNUstep/Defaults/.GNUstepDefaults
84              holds defaults for a user
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BUGS

88       None known.
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DIAGNOSTICS

92       Hopefully self-explanatory.
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HISTORY

96       The 'defaults' command appeared in OpenStep and combined the  capabili‐
97       ties of the earlier NeXTstep commands 'dread', 'dwrite', and 'dremove'.
98       The GNUstep version was written in 1998.
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100       This manual page first appeared in gnustep-base 1.9.2 (March 2004).
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AUTHORS

103       defaults was written by Richard Frith-Macdonald <rfm@gnu.org>
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