OptionsOn plutil itself
-help
Show the usage information for the command and exit
-p
Print the property list in a human-readable fashion
-lint
Check the named property list files for syntax errors. This is the default command option if none is specified
-convert
Convert the named file to the indicated format and write back to the file system <format>
--
Specifies that all further arguments are file names
-s
Don't print anything on success
-r
For JSON, add whitespace and indentation to make the output more human-readable
-o
Specify an alternate path name for the result of the -convert operation; this option is only useful with a single file to be converted. Specifying - as the path outputs to stdout <path>
-e
Specify an alternate extension for converted files, and the output file names are otherwise the same <extension>