diff --git a/release/scripts/mtree-to-plist.awk b/release/scripts/mtree-to-plist.awk
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..21dd7840af0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/release/scripts/mtree-to-plist.awk
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+#!/usr/bin/awk
+/^[^#]/ {
+	gsub(/^\./,"", $1)
+	tags=$NF
+	gsub(/tags=/,"", tags)
+	output=tags".plist"
+	uname=$3
+	gname=$4
+	mode=$5
+	gsub(/uname=/, "", uname);
+	gsub(/gname=/, "", gname);
+	gsub(/mode=/, "", mode);
+
+	print "@("uname","gname","mode") " $1 > output
+}