How to Edit property lists in Terminal

Property lists are essentially XML files with a.plist extension. Here's how to edit them using the command line in the macOS Terminal app.macOS lets you edit property list files in Terminal.XML is an open data format which gained popularity in the mid-1990's when the internet first became commercialized. It's a text-based format which uses key/value pairs to store data. Keys provide data labels, and values store the data related to each key.Data types in XML include Booleans (true/false), numbers, dates, strings (text), arrays, dictionaries, and plain data. A dictionary is just a bundled table of values also with its own set of keys - one for each data item. Continue Reading on AppleInsider