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Mongodb - "grep" through a database

by vain on 3/13/13, 1:10 PM with 1 comments

Helper functions for the mongodb shell

1. db.grep() -Search through all fields in all collections in a database for a value. By default it searches only indexed fields. To include non-indexed fields, specify the second parameter as true.

2. db.collection.fields() -list all keys in a collection -by default, it only checks 10100 documents to get an exhaustive list, if you document varies across the collection, do: db.collection.fields(true)

https://github.com/blowhacker/mongohelper

  • by berito on 3/13/13, 1:31 PM

    I just ran collection.fields() on a collection of books. Surprised to find keys that I didn't even know existed.