Testing plists w/ defaults read

gistfile1.txt

The-Big-Mac:~ glarizza$ defaults read /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/Info NSServices
(
        {
        NSMenuItem =         {
            default = "New TextEdit Window Containing Selection";
        };
        NSMessage = openSelection;
        NSPortName = TextEdit;
        NSSendTypes =         (
            "com.apple.flat-rtfd",
            "public.rtf",
            "public.plain-text"
        );
    },
        {
        NSMenuItem =         {
            default = "Open Selected File in TextEdit";
        };
        NSMessage = openFile;
        NSPortName = TextEdit;
        NSRequiredContext =         {
            NSTextContent = FilePath;
        };
        NSSendTypes =         (
            "public.plain-text"
        );
    }
)
The-Big-Mac:~ glarizza$ echo $?
0
The-Big-Mac:~ glarizza$ defaults read /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/Info NSSt
2012-01-07 09:14:59.031 defaults[17816:903] 
The domain/default pair of (/Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/Info, NSSt) does not exist
The-Big-Mac:~ glarizza$ echo $?
1


in IRB on the client:


>> puts 'true' if system("defaults read /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/Info NSServices > /dev/null")
true
=> nil
>> puts 'true' if system("defaults read /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/Info Nsbad > /dev/null")
2012-01-07 09:17:30.471 defaults[17841:903] 
The domain/default pair of (/Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/Info, Nsbad) does not exist
=> nil

## Try this

exec { "/bin/echo 'test'":
  onlyif => "/usr/bin/defaults read /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/Info NSServices",
}