aerobounce/defaults.sh

 User Defaults Plist → Shell Script converter with Regex filtering

defaults.sh's Issues

How to use currentHost?

When I use ds save, I see NSGlobalDomain.currentHost.sh, including modifier keys like:

defaults -currentHost write NSGlobalDomain "com.apple.keyboard.modifiermapping.1118-1957-0" '
<array>
	<dict>
		<key>HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst</key>
		<real>30064771299</real>
		<key>HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc</key>
		<real>30064771302</real>
	</dict>
	<dict>
		<key>HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst</key>
		<integer>30064771303</integer>
		<key>HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc</key>
		<integer>30064771298</integer>
	</dict>
	<dict>
		<key>HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst</key>
		<real>30064771298</real>
		<key>HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc</key>
		<real>30064771303</real>
	</dict>
	<dict>
		<key>HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst</key>
		<integer>30064771302</integer>
		<key>HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc</key>
		<real>30064771299</real>
	</dict>
</array>
'

Is there a way to access this directly?
ds -d NSGlobalDomain doesn't include these, and ds doesn't have a -currentHost flag. Anything I'm missing?

Allow/Ignore List for Keys

I'm a big fan of defaults.sh! I converted a number of my plists in git into shell scripts over last weekend.

One of my goals, though, was to stop seeing changes that I don't care about. I was encountering issues where Sparkle, for example, would update a plist value that I don't actually care about.

If I wanted to filter out a single Sparkle entry, I could do something like this, and not have to worry about it

ds com.some.app | grep -v SULastCheckTime

This doesn't necessarily scale well, IMO, and for values that are multi-line, I wouldn't expect it to work at all.

I'm curious whether you'd be open to adding arguments so it would be possible to run

ds com.some.app --ignore 'SU*' --ignore SomeKeyIDoNotCareAbout --allow SUThisIActuallyCareAbout

In my mind, allow would override ignore, and either would accept multiple values. I'd be happy to send a PR if you're interested.