create a plist from script with iRev

[Andre Garzia]

Tom,

why a plist on on-rev? The system is linux...

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Thomas McGrath III <mcgrath3 at mac.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the plutil and other suggestions which are good for the desktop,
> but I was wondering about doing this via iRev scripts online.
>
> I can create and populate a pList on my desktop with textWrangler and use
> xcode to convert back to binary for inclusion with my iPhone app. What I
> want is a way using iRev scripts to create one on on-rev and if not that
> then at least via iRev scripts to modify an existing one.
>
>
>
> Tom McGrath III
> Lazy River Software
> 3mcgrath at comcast.net
>
> iTunes Library Suite - libITS
> Information and download can be found on this page:
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>
>
> On Jan 5, 2010, at 10:25 AM, Jim Ault wrote:
>
>
>> On Jan 5, 2010, at 6:39 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
>>
>>  Does anyone have a way or explanation on how to create a plist file on
>>> revOnline via script???
>>>
>>> It turns out that Apple recommends using a pList over json or xml for
>>> transferring data via NSUrl.
>>>
>>> There would be a lot of things I could do if I knew how to create them.
>>>
>>> (on the desktop I can do them and upload manually but then I would still
>>> have to populate them online)
>>>
>>
>>
>> you can run a shell script in Rev that converts a file sitting on your
>> hard drive from binary, then edit, then convert it back again
>>
>> plutil -convert xml1 Project
>> open -a TextEdit Project
>>
>> --edit the file, then File - Save
>> --then run
>> plutil -convert binary1 Project
>>
>> or use BBEdit 9 that opens the plist binary in readable xml, then saves in
>> the binary format automatically.
>>
>> or as Andre said about 18 months ago
>>
>> Folks,
>>
>> This page here < http://tomeklof.googlepages.com/aapl > has a list of
>> useful command line tools unique for Mac OS X. For example did anyone
>> here knew about plutil to convert plists to plain xml and back?
>>
>> Andre
>>
>>
>>
>> Jim Ault
>> Las Vegas
>>
>>
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