I'm finding many articles on the web where it is implied that you can view the .mobileprovision file contents in a text editor. For example, this Urban Airship post:
When push notifications are enabled for an app, the aps-environment key will appear in the .mobileprovision file specifying the provisioning profile:
<key>Entitlements</key>
<dict>
<key>application-identifier</key>
...
However the mobilprovision files I have (obtained within the last few days) contain 466 1/2 rows of 8 groups of 4 hex digits, (e.g. 4851 3842 4176 2845 0a09 01a2 404d 4382). How can I view this type of file?
You are using a text-editor that is a bit too clever for you :D.
Your editor finds out that the file actually is binary and shows it as a hex-dump - for example Sublime 2 does it that way. Open that same file using TextEdit. You will see a couple of lines of binary garbledegock and then some plain-text (XML) that should contain the information you are looking for.
However, do not edit that file using TextEdit, that will render it unusable!
Provisioning Profiles are encoded. To decode them and examine the XML you can use this via command line:
security cms -D -i #{@profilePath}
where #{@profilePath} is the filepath to your .mobileprovision file.
A fuller Ruby example is:
require 'plist'
profile = `security cms -D -i #{@profilePath}`
xml = Plist::parse_xml(profile)
appID = xml['Entitlements']['application-identifier']
If you want Sublime Text 2 to be able to read .mobileprovision profiles this is the setting
"enable_hexadecimal_encoding": false,
You can use openssl to output the contents of the signed profile.
openssl smime -in /path/to/your.mobileprovision -inform der -verify
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10988998/did-apple-change-the-mobileprovision-file-format-and-how-can-i-view-the-curren