Legacy mongo Shell
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Warning
The mongo shell has been deprecated in MongoDB v5.0. The
replacement is mongosh.
Older mongo shell documentation is included with the
corresponding documentation for that MongoDB release.
For the legacy mongo shell documentation, refer to the
legacy documentation
for the corresponding MongoDB Server release.
Comparison of the mongo Shell and mongosh
The new MongoDB Shell (mongosh) offers numerous
advantages over the legacy mongo shell, such as:
Improved syntax highlighting.
Improved command history.
Improved logging.
mongosh currently supports a subset of the legacy
mongo shell methods. To maintain backwards
compatibility, the methods that the new mongosh supports use the
same syntax as the corresponding methods in the legacy
mongo shell.
The list of methods supported by mongosh is here:
MongoDB Shell Methods.