A command line tool to parse .mobileprovision file

mpParse.m

//
// © 2008 Eugene Solodovnykov
// http://idevblog.info/mobileprovision-files-structure-and-reading/
//

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

int main (int argc, const char * argv[]) {
	NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
  
	if (argc < 3) {
    	    printf("Usage: mpParse -f <fileName> [-o <option>]\n");
    	    return 1001;
	}
  
	//get arguments
	NSUserDefaults *arguments = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];
	NSString *fileName = [arguments stringForKey:@"f"];
	NSString *propertyName = [arguments stringForKey:@"o"];
	if (!fileName) {
	    fileName = [arguments stringForKey:@"-file"];
	    if (!fileName) {
	        return 1001;
	    }
	}
	if (!propertyName) {
	    propertyName = [arguments stringForKey:@"-option"];
	    if	(!propertyName) {
	        propertyName = @"type";
	    }
	}
	
	//get plist XML
	NSString *fileString = [[NSString alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:fileName];
	NSScanner *scanner = [[NSScanner alloc] initWithString:fileString];
	[fileString release];	
	if ([scanner scanUpToString:@"<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>" intoString:NULL]) {
	    NSString *plistString;
	    if ([scanner scanUpToString:@"</plist>" intoString:&plistString]) {
	        [scanner release];
		NSDictionary *plist = [[plistString stringByAppendingString:@"</plist>"] propertyList];
			
		// get profile type
		// possible types:
		//		ad-hoc
		//		appstore
		//		debug
		if ([propertyName isEqualToString:@"type"]) {
		    if ([plist valueForKeyPath:@"ProvisionedDevices"]) {
		        if ([[plist valueForKeyPath:@"Entitlements.get-task-allow"] boolValue]) {
			    printf("debug\n");
			} else {
			    printf("ad-hoc\n");
			}
		    } else {
			printf("appstore\n");
				}
			} else 
			    // get the UUID of the profile
			    if ([propertyName isEqualToString:@"uuid"]) {
			        printf("%s\n", [[plist valueForKeyPath:@"UUID"] cStringUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]);
				} else 
				    // get the supported devices list
				    if ([propertyName isEqualToString:@"devices"]) {
				        NSArray *devices = [plist valueForKeyPath:@"ProvisionedDevices"];
					if (devices) {
					    for (NSString *deviceId in devices) {
					        printf("%s\n", [deviceId cStringUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]);
					    }
				        }
				}
		} else {
			[scanner release];
			return 1002;
		}
	} else {
		[scanner release];
		return 1002;
	}
  
	[pool drain];
	return 0;
}

Looks like the blog related to this file is down, so I threw together a simple project and compiled it. You can download the binary at https://github.com/dwelch2344/mpParse/blob/master/build/mpParse (though GitHub adds .txt to the end of the file, so you'll probably want to strip that out)

Actually the blog has moved to http://0xc010d.net/mobileprovision-files-structure-and-reading/ and the related GitHub repo is https://github.com/0xc010d/mobileprovision-read