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

Also there is mongoexport for that, but I'm not sure since which version it is available.

Example:

mongoexport -d dbname -c collection --jsonArray --pretty --quiet --out output.json