Finding Documents

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find and findOne

`find` returns a cursor over all matching documents. `findOne` returns the first match or null. Pass a filter object to narrow results — an empty filter {} matches everything.

// All students
db.students.find({});

// Students on the Full Stack course
db.students.find({ course: "Full Stack" });

// Single document
db.students.findOne({ name: "Aman Verma" });

Iterating a Cursor

// In mongosh, use .toArray() or forEach
const results = await db.collection("students").find({ enrolled: true }).toArray();

results.forEach(student => {
  console.log(student.name);
});

In mongosh, find() automatically prints the first 20 results. Type it to iterate to the next batch.

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