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Utility to scan a settings plist and remove a entries matching a key from the provided list.
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| #/bin/bash | |
| if [ $# -ne 2 ]; then | |
| echo "Invalid parameters specified." | |
| echo "expected syntax to remove keys in list from plist file some.plist:" | |
| echo "./remove_key.sh some.plist key1,key2,key3"i | |
| exit 1 | |
| fi | |
| plist="$1" | |
| keysToRemove="$2" | |
| cnt=`/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Print PreferenceSpecifiers:" $plist | grep "Dict"|wc -l | tr -d ' '` | |
| cnt=`expr "$cnt" '-' '1'` | |
| for i in `seq 0 $cnt`; do | |
| key=`/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Print PreferenceSpecifiers:${i}:Key" $plist 2>/dev/null` | |
| pattern="^${key},|^${key}$|,${key}$|,${key}," | |
| if [[ $keysToRemove =~ $pattern ]];then | |
| /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Delete PreferenceSpecifiers:${i}" $plist | |
| echo "found and removed $key" | |
| fi | |
| done |
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