[PD] defaults interface on 10.8

[katja]

Hi Jonathan,

Sorry for the delay, the plutil manpage for 10.8.5 says about format
for the '-convert' flag:

fmt is one of: xml1, for version 1 of the XML plist format
binary1, for version 1 of the binary plist format
json, for the JSON format

Among the additional options is:

-r   For JSon, add whitespace and indentation to make the output mor
human-readable.

Katja

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 8:08 PM, Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the report, katja.
>
> It looks like we can use 'plutil' instead.
>
> Does the manpage for 'plutil' in 10.8 include 'json' as a possible
> format for the '-convert' flag?
>
> -Jonathan
>
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 12:57 AM, Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
>>> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 2:22 PM, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list
>>
>>
>> <pd-list at lists.iem.at> wrote:
>>>> Hello list,
>>>>
>>>> Can someone on OSX 10.8 please run the following command:
>>>> defaults export /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences -
>>
>>> Trying this on OSX 10.8.5.
>>
>> Just to be clear-- did you type the exact command I specified above?  If
>> so, what happened?
>
>
> With the command as you specify, but also with command 'defaults'
> without argument, it responds with:
>
> "Command line interface to a user's defaults.
> Syntax:
> 'defaults' [-currrentHost | -host <hostname>] followed by one of the
> following:
> [...]"
>
> Then follows the list with command options (read, read-type, write,
> rename, delete, domains, find) and explanations. In other words,
> 'defaults' without argument or with argument 'export' are not valid
> options on this system (10.8.5). Compare the issue described here:
>
> https://github.com/kcrawford/dockutil/issues/17
>
> Can you think of another approach to get what you want, that I can
> test on 10.8.5?
>
> Katja
>
>
>