<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px">> Hi Jonathan,<br clear="none"><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490284206147_3655" style="display: block;"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490284206147_3654"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490284206147_3653"><div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490284206147_3702"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490284206147_3701"><br clear="none"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490284206147_3703">> Sorry for the delay, the plutil manpage for 10.8.5 says about format <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490284206147_3704">> for the '-convert' flag:</div><br clear="none">> fmt is one of: xml1, for version 1 of the XML plist format<br clear="none">> binary1, for version 1 of the binary plist format<br clear="none">> json, for the JSON format<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> Among the additional options is:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> -r For JSon, add whitespace and indentation to make the output mor<br clear="none">> human-readable.<br clear="none"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490284206147_3762"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490284206147_3764">Thanks, Katja.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490284206147_3826"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490284206147_3825">-Jonathan<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490284206147_3828"><br></div>> Katja<br clear="none"><div class="yqt5359056200" id="yqtfd32318"><br clear="none">On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 8:08 PM, Jonathan Wilkes <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:jancsika@yahoo.com" href="mailto:jancsika@yahoo.com">jancsika@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">> Thanks for the report, katja.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> It looks like we can use 'plutil' instead.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Does the manpage for 'plutil' in 10.8 include 'json' as a possible<br clear="none">> format for the '-convert' flag?<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> -Jonathan<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 12:57 AM, Jonathan Wilkes <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:jancsika@yahoo.com" href="mailto:jancsika@yahoo.com">jancsika@yahoo.com</a>><br clear="none">> wrote:<br clear="none">><br clear="none">><br clear="none">><br clear="none">>>> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 2:22 PM, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:pd-list@lists.iem.at" href="mailto:pd-list@lists.iem.at">pd-list@lists.iem.at</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">>>>> Hello list,<br clear="none">>>>><br clear="none">>>>> Can someone on OSX 10.8 please run the following command:<br clear="none">>>>> defaults export /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences -<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>>> Trying this on OSX 10.8.5.<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> Just to be clear-- did you type the exact command I specified above? If<br clear="none">>> so, what happened?<br clear="none">><br clear="none">><br clear="none">> With the command as you specify, but also with command 'defaults'<br clear="none">> without argument, it responds with:<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> "Command line interface to a user's defaults.<br clear="none">> Syntax:<br clear="none">> 'defaults' [-currrentHost | -host <hostname>] followed by one of the<br clear="none">> following:<br clear="none">> [...]"<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Then follows the list with command options (read, read-type, write,<br clear="none">> rename, delete, domains, find) and explanations. In other words,<br clear="none">> 'defaults' without argument or with argument 'export' are not valid<br clear="none">> options on this system (10.8.5). Compare the issue described here:<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="https://github.com/kcrawford/dockutil/issues/17" target="_blank">https://github.com/kcrawford/dockutil/issues/17</a><br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Can you think of another approach to get what you want, that I can<br clear="none">> test on 10.8.5?<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Katja<br clear="none">><br clear="none">><br clear="none">><br clear="none"></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>