Command to change all system keyboard shortcuts

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Hi, I recently find out that there is a prefs file which manages all the system keyboard shortcuts. It's named com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist and it's in ~/Library/Preferences/. I've figured out how does this prefs file work, but I don't know the defaults command for it. I will explain how does this file work, and hopefully someone can find the command.

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Open this file with Xcode, and It would look like this:

There are a bunch of key, and each key is an ID number of a shortcut. For example, the key of Command + Option + Space is 65.

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• enabled is a bool value controls whether this shortcuts is enabled.
• parameters is an array controls which keys are assigned to this shortcut.
  • Item 0 is the ASCII code of the character. For example, the ASCII code of Space is 32, so the Item 0 is set to 32. For non-ASCII characters, Item 0 is set to 65535.
  • Item 1 is the keyboard key code for the character. The key code for Space key is 49, so Item 1 is set to 49. A few key codes are listing here and Key Codes is helpful to find all the key codes.
  • Item 2 is the sum of the Control, Command, Shift and Option keys. These are bits 17-20 in binary: Shift is bit 17(=131072), Control is bit 18(=262144), Option is bit 19(=524288), and Command is bit 20(=1048576). For Command + Option + Space, it means 1048576 + 524288 = 1572864, so Item 2 is set to 1572864.

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Restarting the Mac is necessary to take into effect the changes.
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