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

You can add

DBQuery.prototype._prettyShell = true

to your file in $HOME/.mongorc.js to enable pretty print globally by default.

Answer 2

(note: this is answer to the updated question)

You can just do this on the CLI:

echo DBQuery.prototype._prettyShell = true >> ~/.mongorc.js

And it's always going to output pretty results.