goplist

Tool that helps convert macOS preferences to bash commands. I initially wanted to save some of my macOS preferences as bash commands so I can use them in my dotfiles and whenever I would have to setup a new macOS environment, I can easily import my macOS preferences.

How to Install

This is only for macOS of course 😉

Download executable

• Go to the latest release and download the goplist executable.
• Make goplist executable: chmod +x goplist
• Run goplist with ./goplist -h

Build locally

Alternatively you can build it yourself:

git clone git@github.com:ZhongXiLu/goplist.git
cd goplist
go install
goplist -h

How to Run

• Simply run goplist in any directory and it will record any changes to your preferences. Note that it may take some time for the OS to write your changes to disk. If you want to keep your current preference, simply toggle (with a small delay in between them) and goplist will remember your last choice. After you are done, simply press ctrl + c and goplist will write your preferences to file (by default macos.sh).
• Run goplist -h for help.
• Currently, goplist is experimental and might not always work 😛

Demo

• Changing system preferences:

• This also works for some other applications, e.g. iTerm2: