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converting a plist from xml to binary and back
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converting a plist from xml to binary and back
ninja:tmp bsmartt$ plutil -convert binary1 -o binary.com.labs.alienvault.midas.cron.plist com.labs.alienvault.midas.cron.plist
ninja:tmp bsmartt$ plutil -convert xml1 -o xml.binary.com.labs.alienvault.midas.cron.plist binary.com.labs.alienvault.midas.cron.plist
ninja:tmp bsmartt$ file *.plist
binary.com.labs.alienvault.midas.cron.plist: Apple binary property list
com.labs.alienvault.midas.cron.plist: XML document text
xml.binary.com.labs.alienvault.midas.cron.plist: XML document text
ninja:tmp bsmartt$ md5 com.labs.alienvault.midas.cron.plist xml.binary.com.labs.alienvault.midas.cron.plist
MD5 (com.labs.alienvault.midas.cron.plist) = 256d573901f860e7c9471cc28374b2e3
MD5 (xml.binary.com.labs.alienvault.midas.cron.plist) = 256d573901f860e7c9471cc28374b2e3
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