Pb converting plist to binary format

Hi,

I have an XML plist generated by a perl program that I would like to convert to binary plist in a shell script. So I'm using the dedicated "plutil" program from the command line.

Alas it won't convert the plist to binary, leaving it in XML format wether I try :

plutil - convert binary1 fuel.plist

or

plutil -convert binary1 -o fuel2.plist fuel.plist

So I try this :

plutil -convert binary1 -o - fuel.plist

to send the result to the STDOUT.

Bingo, the output is definitely a binary plist as it starts with the "bplist" signature and is followed by lots of non human-readable characters.

But ... when I tried this :

plutil -convert binary1 -o - fuel.plist > fuel2.plist

Istill get that XML file !!

I tried with different filenames like fuel.db for the output in case plutil would reserve the .plist extension to XML format. I also validated the input file with plutil.

This is driving me crazy ... There must be something, but what ?

Any help appreciated 😉

Regards
Phil