PlistBuddy base64 data in Clover config.plist

[slemblod]

Hello!

 

I am making an automation script for installing Clover onto a drive's EFI partition.

For editing the stock config.plist i use PlistBuddy (located in /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy), and the following command causes issues:

/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Add :KernelAndKextPatches:KextsToPatch:0:Find data ixnUEQ==" $config

I tried replacing

ixnUEQ==

with other bases, e.g. 

8b19d411

 or

10001011 00011001 11010100 00010001

but none yields the desired result, which is:

<data>
ixnEUQ==
</data>

 

Do you have any suggestion as to what I could do instead?

 

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you!

 

EDIT: Solved it. See post 3.

[slemblod]

Bump? i tried messing around with the "defaults" command, but it seems that it can only modify keys at the "root" of the .plist.

Should it be possible to do with perl/grep/sed?

Thank you!

[slemblod]

It is not pretty, but it works. I solved it by combining these commands (the gibberish data is the faulty data that ended up in the $config file):

/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Add :KernelAndKextPatches:KextsToPatch:0:Find data ixnUEQ==" $config
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Add :KernelAndKextPatches:KextsToPatch:0:Replace data kgjsEA==" $config

/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Add :KernelAndKextPatches:KextsToPatch:1:Find data QVBQTEUgU1NE" $config
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Add :KernelAndKextPatches:KextsToPatch:1:Replace data AAAAAAAAAAAA" $config

perl -pi -e 's/aXhuVUVRPT0=/ixnUEQ==/g' $config
perl -pi -e 's/a2dqc0VBPT0=/kgjsEA==/g' $config

perl -pi -e 's/UVZCUVRFVWdVMU5F/QVBQTEUgU1NE/g' $config
perl -pi -e 's/QUFBQUFBQUFBQUFB/AAAAAAAAAAAA/g' $config

[el coniglio]

Save the binary data to a file and use the Import command. 

/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c \"Import :IOKitPersonalities:HDA\ Hardware\ Config\ Resource:HDAConfigDefault:0:AFGLowPowerState tmp.bin\" plist"

where tmp.bin is the binary file.