Pretty print in MongoDB shell as default

Question

Is there a way to tell Mongo to pretty print output  Currently  everything is output to a single line and it s difficult to read  especially with nested arrays and documents

User · Answer

Since it is basically a javascript shell, you can also use toArray():

db.collection.find().toArray()

However, this will print all the documents of the collection unlike pretty() that will allow you to iterate. Refer: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/method/cursor.toArray/

User · Answer

Got to the question but could not figure out how to print it from externally-loaded mongo  So   This works is for console  and is prefered in console  but does not work in external mongo-loaded javascript   db quizes find   pretty     This works in external mongo-loaded javscript   db quizes find   forEach printjson

User · Answer

Give a try to Mongo-hacker node module   it alway prints pretty  https   github com TylerBrock mongo-hacker  More it enhances mongo shell  supports only ver 2 4  current ver is 3 0   like    Colorization Additional shell commands  count documents count docs etc  API Additions  db collection find          last    db collection find          reverse    etc  Aggregation Framework   I am using for while in production env  no problems yet

User · Answer

Oh so i guess  pretty   is equal to   db collection find   forEach printjson

User · Answer

Check this out       db collection find   pretty

User · Answer

note  this is answer to original version of the question  which did not have requirements for  default    You can ask it to be pretty   db collection find   pretty

User · Answer

note  this is answer to the updated question   You can just do this on the CLI   echo DBQuery prototype  prettyShell   true  gt  gt     mongorc js   And it s always going to output pretty results

User · Answer

You can add  DBQuery prototype  prettyShell   true   to your file in  HOME  mongorc js to enable pretty print globally by default

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