find()

MongoDB Driver Function Reference

Retrieves all documents matching the filter criteria from a collection.

db.<collection>.find([<filter>[, <options>]])

Arguments

<collection>		The target collection
<filter>		A filter expression using query operators
<options>		A BOSN document specifying options

Options

{ allowDiskUse: <boolean>, allowPartialResults: <boolean>, batchSize: <int>, comment: <string>,
max: <document>, maxAwaitTime: <long>, min: <document>, noCursorTimeout: <boolean>,
returnKey: <boolean>, showRecordId: <boolean>, collation: <document>, hint: <document>, }

allowDiskUse		Allows to write to disk while executing
allowPartialResults		Allows partial results if some shards are missing.
batchSize		Sets the batch size.
comment		Sets the comment.
max		Sets the maximum key value.
maxAwaitTime		Sets the maximum await time (in milliseconds).
min		Sets the minimum key value.
noCursorTimeout		Sets if the cursor will time out.
returnKey		Sets if only index keys will be returned.
showRecordId		Sets if the record ID will be added to the result.
collation		A document specifying the collation
hint		A document specifying a hint

Example

db.employees.find({ salary: { $gt: 700000 }});

Returns all documents from the employee collection with a salary greater than 700000.

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