Question

I am trying to implement the answer here:

Better way of incrementing build number?

but cannot get it to work properly. It fails with error 2 saying “No build number in plist”

But if I put a build number in my plist, the script clears it on the next build, then the same thing happens all over again.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Here’s how I increment build numbers:

In the Target > Summary tab, set the initial build #

Then use this script to increment the build number:

#!/bin/bash
buildNumber=$(/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Print CFBundleVersion" "$INFOPLIST_FILE")
buildNumber=$(($buildNumber + 1))
buildNumber=$(printf "%04d" $buildNumber)
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Set :CFBundleVersion $buildNumber" "$INFOPLIST_FILE"

or if you want build numbers in hex:

#!/bin/bash
buildNumber=$(/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Print CFBundleVersion" "$INFOPLIST_FILE")
buildNumber=$((0x$buildNumber))
buildNumber=$(($buildNumber + 1))
buildNumber=$(printf "%04X" $buildNumber)
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Set :CFBundleVersion $buildNumber" "$INFOPLIST_FILE"