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Write documents to a JSON file.

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Section: Import and export data

Export a collection to JSON

bash
bash
mongoexport --uri="mongodb://localhost:27017/appdb" --collection=users --out=users.json
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Useful for interoperability, reporting, and selective migrations.

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