Lots of stuff in a Mac is stored in property list files with the .plist extension on a Mac. Accessing them with Unix tools is possible and besides the usual C/C++/ObjC options there's a perl interface to the necessary functionality as well, as the following site suggests:
MacDevCenter.com -- Using Perl to Manage Plist Files
As these methods are accessing the underlying Cocoa mechanisms, documentation can be found on the property lists themselves here...
Property List Programming Guide for Cocoa: Introduction to Property Lists
... and on the individual methods here:
 plist-dump.pl | [Simple perl script to dump the contents of a plist file (also binary).] | 0 Kb | 04/05/09 13:54 |
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