remove plist

Try using:

set the_plists to (do shell script "plutil -s ~/Library/Preferences/*.plist")

repeat with this_path in paragraphs of the_plists

set this_path to items 1 thru ((offset of ":" in this_path) - 1) of this_path as string

set the_name to POSIX file this_path

tell application "Finder"

set the_name to name of (the_name as alias)

end tell

do shell script "mv '" & this_path & "' ~/.Trash/'" & the_name & "'"

end repeat

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I'm not sure why you are running this with administrator privileges. You shouldn't have to. Parsing the output file for pathnames is more work than it is worth. plutil runs fairly quickly. So, I'll suggust that you run your command to produce the badplistfiles.txt. plutil exits with a non zero exit code if it finds a corrupt plist file. You could send standard out and standard error to the bit bucket then use "||"- "logical or" to move the corrupt plist file(s).

for i in ~/Library/Preferences/*.plist; do
plutil "${i}"  > /dev/null 2>&1 || mv "${i}" ~/.Trash
done

You could write it in a single line like this

for i in ~/Library/Preferences/*.plist; do plutil "${i}"  > /dev/null 2>&1 || mv "${i}" ~/.Trash; done

You'll have to figure out how to escape the quotes in a do shell script statement. I'm not an AppleScripter.

Hello

You may also try something like this in shell:

plutil -s ~/Library/Preferences/*.plist |   # validate plists and only write bad list
tee ~/Desktop/badplistfiles.txt |           # write bad list to a log file
perl -l0pe 's/:.*$//og' |                   # extract plist paths from bad list (string before :, null-terminated)
xargs -0 -J% mv % ~/.Trash                  # move bad plists to Trash

From AppleScript:

do shell script "
plutil -s ~/Library/Preferences/*.plist |   # validate plists and only write bad list
tee ~/Desktop/badplistfiles.txt |           # write bad list to a log file
perl -l0pe 's/:.*$//og' |                   # extract plist paths from bad list (string before :, null-terminated)
xargs -0 -J% mv % ~/.Trash                  # move bad plists to Trash
"

Regards,

H