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bitfidelity

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Jul 2, 2012
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When you enter a "defaults write" command in Terminal and accidentally put in a wrong character or leave one out, is anything still written to your system?
 
When you enter a "defaults write" command in Terminal and accidentally put in a wrong character or leave one out, is anything still written to your system?

Yup it gets written.

Verify this by typing:

defaults read | grep -i <SOME TEXT HERE FROM THE MISTYPED LINE>

(without the <>'s by the way)

You can also just delete the key you created as well. Type in just the word defaults in terminal, and this will show you the syntax to delete the key.
 
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