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Panos Emmanouilidis
Panos Emmanouilidis

Reputation: 21

Delete/Remove a document from a collection using command prompt in MongoDB

I want to remove or delete one or more documents from a collection in MongoDB without using MongoDB Compass.

How can I remove or delete a document using Command Prompt ?

I have create a db 'University' and a collection 'names'. On the collection 'names' I have create 8 documents the 5 are full with data and the rest 3 are with data that I don't want them on my collection. How I can remove those 3 document?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1273

Answers (1)

Rashmi Nalwaya
Rashmi Nalwaya

Reputation: 516

Connect to mongo shell.

Run the following command

use db_name
db.getCollection(*collection_name*).deleteOne()

You can refer mongoDb doc as well.

Upvotes: 2

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