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Prettify XML in a shell

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How to pretty print XML in a shell?

I have command-line tool which outputs XML in a single line, totally unreadable. I would like something to pipe this into, to turn it into human readable XML with newlines and indentation.

So something like this:

$ output-dirty-xml
<outer><inner some="value">Hey there!</inner></outer>
$ output-dirty-xml | prettify-xml
<outer>
  <inner some="value">Hey there!</inner>
</outer>

shell xml

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xmllint from xmllib2 can do this:

$ output-dirty-xml | xmllint --format -

The dash in the end tells xmllint to read from stdin instead of a file.

Source: manpage

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