Welcome back to the tutorial series that covers everything you ever wanted to know about preferences (.plist) files. So far, we have explored what .plist files are, how to interpret the content of ...

How to manually edit defaults plist files in Mavericks The new caching of preference settings in OS X Mavericks may frustrate some approaches to manual adjustment of program settings.

Property lists are essentially XML files with a .plist extension. Here's how to edit them using the command line in the macOS Terminal app.

I'm using the Plist editor in Xcode to examine the files and find the keys I need but I want to build a bash script I can just put on the machines I deploy.

Can you post a sample plist file along with an explanation of just what you hope to alphabetize? It might be pretty simple, but would vary depending on the composition of the property list.