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Trying to convert a plist file to JSON but plutil is giving you a hard time?

I want the CellBroadcast as JSON:

plutil -extract CellBroadcast json -o - test.plist

That fails despite it should not:

test.plist: invalid object in plist for destination format

The solution is to first extract to binary, then convert to JSON:

plutil -extract CellBroadcast binary1 -o - | plutil -convert json -o - -
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