Property list (plist)

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The Property List (plist) format is widely used within Mac OS X. It is used to store various kinds of information, e.g. configuration.

There are multiple format variations of plists:

• Binary plist
• XML plist
• JSON plist

External Links

• Wikipedia article on Property list
• CFBinaryPList.c by Apple
• Apple have documented the binary plist format
• Python Module for dealing with Binary Property Lists (bplists) Documentation
• Property Lists in Digital Forensics, by Alex Caithness, 2010

Tools

• binplist
• libplist
• plutil.pl
• Python Module for dealing with Binary Property Lists (bplists)
• munki - Managed software installation for OS X comes with code to handle binary plists