Cocoa Programming for OS X: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

For the More Curious: Reading/Writing Defaults from the Command Line

You can use the defaults command-line tool to safely read and write defaults. For example, to see your defaults for Xcode, you can bring up the Terminal and enter the following command:

d​e​f​a​u​l​t​s​ ​r​e​a​d​ ​c​o​m​.​a​p​p​l​e​.​d​t​.​X​c​o​d​e​

You should see all your defaults for Xcode. There are a lot of them! A few lines of ours look like this:

I​D​E​D​i​s​a​b​l​e​G​i​t​S​u​p​p​o​r​t​F​o​r​N​e​w​P​r​o​j​e​c​t​s​ ​=​ ​1​;​ I​D​E​E​n​a​b​l​e​L​i​v​e​I​s​s​u​e​s​ ​=​ ​0​;​ I​D​E​F​i​l​e​T​e​m​p​l​a​t​e​C​h​o​o​s​e​r​A​s​s​i​s​t​a​n​t​S​e​l​e​c​t​e​d​T​e​m​p​l​a​t​e​C​a​t​e​g​o​r​y​ ​=​ ​S​o​u​r​c​e​;​ I​D​E​F​i​l​e​T​e​m​p​l​a​t​e​C​h​o​o​s​e​r​A​s​s​i​s​t​a​n​t​S​e​l​e​c​t​e​d​T​e​m​p​l​a​t​e​N​a​m​e​ ...