How can I use defaults write with a multi-line value? [solved]

I’m trying to use `defaults write com.myprogram.plist “dataName” “dataValue”`

It works fine, but I have a long string that I need to set as the value:

TG9yZW0gaXBzdW0gZG9sb3Igc2l0IGFtZXQsIGNvbnNl
Y3RldHVyIGFkaXBpc2NpbmcgZWxpdC4gTWFlY2VuYXMg
dGluY2lkdW50LCBkaWFtIHNlZCBtb2xlc3RpZSBsYW9y
ZWV0LA==

How can I do this from the command line? Do I use an escape character like “\n” or can I just read a value from a file directly with `defaults write` ?

###Solution / Answer

Use `/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy` instead, its `Import ` should do exactly what you want. In defaults, you could try to hex-encode your data and use the -data argument as type.

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