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

As answer by Neodan mongoexport is quite useful with -q option for query. It also convert ObjectId to standard format of JSON "$oid". E.g:

mongoexport -d yourdb -c yourcol --jsonArray --pretty -q '{"field": "filter value"}' -o output.json