How to count the number of documents in a mongodb collection

Question

I would like to know how to count the number of documents in a collection. I tried the follow

var value = collection.count();
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var value = collecti         


        

Answer 1

Traverse to the database where your collection resides using the command:

use databasename;

Then invoke the count() function on the collection in the database.

var value = db.collection.count();

and then print(value) or simply value, would give you the count of documents in the collection named collection.

Refer: http://docs.mongodb.org/v2.2/tutorial/getting-started-with-the-mongo-shell/