Pretty print in MongoDB shell as default

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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

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Check this out       db collection find   pretty

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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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