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

you can use this command to acheive it:

mongo admin -u -p --quiet --eval "cursor = rs.status(); printjson(cursor)" > output.json