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 document

Answer 1

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/