unrecognized option: --help plutil: [command_option] [other_options] file... The file '-' means stdin Command options are (-lint is the default): -help show this message and exit -lint check the property list files for syntax errors -convert fmt rewrite property list files in format fmt is one of: xml1 binary1 json -p print property list in a human-readable fashion (not for machine parsing! this 'format' is not stable) There are some additional optional arguments that apply to -convert -s be silent on success -o path specify alternate file path name for result; the -o option is used with -convert, and is only useful with one file argument (last file overwrites); the path '-' means stdout -e extension specify alternate extension for converted files -r if writing JSON, output in human-readable form -- specifies that all further arguments are file names