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.\"Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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.\"Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
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.\"are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
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.\"notice and this notice are preserved.
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.TH DEFAULTS "1" "February 2004" "GNUstep" "GNUstep System Manual"
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.SH NAME
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defaults - read or modify GNUstep user defaults
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B defaults [ action ]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The 'defaults' command lets you to read and modify a user's defaults.
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.PP
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This program replaces the old NeXTstep style dread, dwrite, and dremove
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programs.
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.PP
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If you have access to another user's defaults database, you may
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include \&'\-u username' before any other options to use that user's
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database rather than your own.
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.PP
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defaults read [ domain [ key] ]
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.IP
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read the named default from the specified domain.
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If no 'key' is given - read all defaults from the domain.
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If no 'domain' is given - read all defaults from all domains.
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A domain is either an application name, or "NSGlobalDomain", for system level
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defauts. (Running programs can access two other domains,
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"NSArgumentDomain", for command line arguments, "NSRegistrationDomain", a
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second-chance domain in which "defaults for defaults" can be registered, and
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possibly domains for specific locales.)
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.PP
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defaults readkey key
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.IP
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read the named default from all domains.
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.PP
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defaults write domain key value
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.IP
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write 'value' as default 'key' in the specified domain.
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\&'value' must be a property list in single quotes.
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.PP
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defaults write domain dictionary
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.IP
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write 'dictionary' as a replacement for the specified domain.
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\&'dictionary' must be a property list in single quotes.
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.PP
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defaults write
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.IP
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reads standard input for defaults in the format produced by
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\&'defaults read' and writes them to the database.
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.PP
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defaults delete [ domain [ key] ]
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.IP
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remove the specified default(s) from the domain.
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If no 'key' is given - delete the entire domain.
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.PP
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defaults delete
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.IP
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read standard input for a series of lines containing pairs of domains
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and keys for defaults to be deleted.
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.PP
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defaults domains
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.IP
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lists the domains in the database (one per line)
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.PP
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defaults find word
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.IP
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searches domain names, default names, and default value strings for
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those equal to the specified word and lists them on standard output.
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.PP
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defaults plist
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.IP
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output some information about property lists
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.PP
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defaults help
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.IP
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list options for the defaults command.
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.SH FILES
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.IP ~/GNUstep/Defaults/.GNUstepDefaults
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holds defaults for a user
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.SH BUGS
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None known.
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.SH DIAGNOSTICS
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.P
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Hopefully self-explanatory.
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.P
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.SH HISTORY
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The 'defaults' command appeared in OpenStep and combined the capabilities of
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the earlier NeXTstep commands 'dread', 'dwrite', and 'dremove'.
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.RS 0
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The GNUstep version was written in 1998.
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.P
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This manual page first appeared in gnustep-base 1.9.2 (March 2004).
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.P
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.SH AUTHORS
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.B defaults
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was written by Richard Frith-Macdonald <rfm@gnu.org>
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