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Dustin Martin

Dustin Martin

Hello! Thanks for stopping by. I use this site to collect my thoughts, use as a later reference, and share with others. If you found something useful and want to get in touch, feel free to contact me.

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Format XML Files

Today I found myself looking through hundreds of unformatted XML files. I did some googling and found the following script that makes use of xmllint to format all the files and save copies of them to a ‘formatted’ folder.

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname "*.xml" -exec xmllint --format '{}' --output formatted/'{}' \;

Worked like a charm (on Mac OS).