---
title: Tidying up XML in one click
author: James
type: post
date: 2015-06-28T10:24:33+00:00
url: /2015/06/28/tidying-up-xml-in-one-click/
categories:
  - PhD
  - Work
tags:
  - processing
  - sapienta
  - tidy
  - xml

---
When I’m working on Partridge and SAPIENTA, I find myself dealing with a lot of badly formatted XML. I used to manually run _xmllint –format_ against every file before opening it but that gets annoying very quickly (even if you have it saved in your bash history). So I decided to write a Nemo script that does it automatically for me.

<pre lang="bash">#!/bin/sh

for xmlfile in $NEMO_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS; do

    if [[ $xmlfile == *.xml ]]
     then
         xmllint --format $xmlfile > $xmlfile.tmp
        rm $xmlfile
        mv $xmlfile.tmp $xmlfile
    fi
done
</pre>

Pop that in a file called &#8220;Tidy XML&#8221; in your ~/.local/share/nemo/scripts directory and when you inspect files with Nemo it should appear in the right click menu.