Re: com.apple and terminal

2012-02-21 Thread Chris Blouch
Yup, it's a file on your hard drive someplace. Usually in the preference folder inside the Library folder. There are two sets. One is at the top level of the hard drive /Library/Preferences and the other is in your user folder /Users/username/Library/Preferences. As is implied by the folders, c

Re: com.apple and terminal

2012-02-21 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi CB, I found a page full of tweaks for osx, and in there, many times, the com.apple object comes by. So is it something on disk in a normal file? So a p list is a property list? And another coin drops into place. And yes, the defaults command is closely related every time. I'll read on about t

Re: com.apple and terminal

2012-02-21 Thread Chris Blouch
You must be poking around in your preferences folder. These usually preferences settings such as com.apple.recentitems.plist. Some are in XML while others are in a binary format which is not "human readable". In either case you can use the Property List Editor included with XCode which gives yo

com.apple and terminal

2012-02-21 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, When examining commands for the mac command line, I keep coming across com.apple. I think it is some kind of object that has properties. What does this thing do? Where do I find documentation about this? Man doesn't have an explanation as far as I can see. Can anyone help me get s