PL(1) BSD General Commands Manual PL(1)

NAME
     ppll - converts between ASCII and binary plist formats

SYNOPSIS
     ppll [-iinnppuutt ] [-oouuttppuutt ]

DESCRIPTION
     Reads ASCII property list from stdin (or serialized file if -iinnppuutt speci-
     fied) and writes ASCII property list to stdout (or serialized file if
     -oouuttppuutt specified).

     Can be used to convert between ASCII and binary formats.  Binary format
     is the old-style serialized format, not the keyed-archive format intro-
     duced in Mac OS X 10.2.

     This command is deprecated and exists only for backwards compatibility.

     Do not use ppll, use pplluuttiill instead.

OOPPTTIIOONNSS
     -iinnppuutt binaryfile
             Read from binaryfile instead of stdin.

     -oouuttppuutt binaryfile
             Write to binaryfile instead of stdout.

SEE ALSO
     plutil(1), plist(5)

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