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MongoDB Cheatsheet

Published on December 23, 2020

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The purpose of this page is to summarise key mongodb commands you will often use.

# Select the database
show dbs
use <db-name>

# Show all collections in the database
show collections

# Print out all documents in the database
db.<collection-name>.find()

# Print out in an easy-to-read but less compact format
db.<collection-name>.find().pretty()

Delete documents​

show dbs
use <db-name>

# Show all collections in the database
show collections

# Remove all documents in the collection
db.<collection-name>.remove( { } )

# See reference for more information

Resources​