Is there a way to 'pretty' print MongoDB shell output to a file?

Question

Specifically, I want to print the results of a mongodb find() to a file. The JSON object is too large so I\'m unable to view the entire object with the shell wi

Answer 1

Just put the commands you want to run into a file, then pass it to the shell along with the database name and redirect the output to a file. So, if your find command is in find.js and your database is foo, it would look like this:

./mongo foo find.js >> out.json