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Support writing to (bson) files from shell

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    • Priority: Icon: Minor - P4 Minor - P4
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      running mongodump with the correct args and dealing with extended json (shell escaping, quotes and $ characters etc) is very confusing and difficult.

      it would be nice to just be able to run a query through the same shell mechanism and save it to a file.

      Something like:

      db.collection.find({created_at:{$lt:ISODate("2014-01-01T16:20:49.177Z")}).sort({created_at:1}).dump("/tmp/path_to_file.bson")

      or if not part of cursor prototype, at least a shell helper to take a cursor and iterate it + write bson to local file on disk.

            Assignee:
            geert.bosch@mongodb.com Geert Bosch
            Reporter:
            mikeo@mongodb.com Michael O'Brien
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