To fetch documents, use find() in MongoDB. With that, to format the resultant documents, use pretty().
Let us create a collection with documents −
> db.demo306.insertOne({"Name":"Robert","Age":21}); { "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : ObjectId("5e4ea7c6f8647eb59e562038") } > db.demo306.insertOne({"Name":"David","Age":23}); { "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : ObjectId("5e4ea7cdf8647eb59e562039") } > db.demo306.insertOne({"Name":"Mike","Age":25}); { "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : ObjectId("5e4ea7d4f8647eb59e56203a") } > db.demo306.insertOne({"Name":"Carol","Age":26}); { "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : ObjectId("5e4ea7dcf8647eb59e56203b") }
Display all documents from a collection with the help of find() method −
> db.demo306.find().pretty();
This will produce the following output −
{ "_id" : ObjectId("5e4ea7c6f8647eb59e562038"), "Name" : "Robert", "Age" : 21 } { "_id" : ObjectId("5e4ea7cdf8647eb59e562039"), "Name" : "David", "Age" : 23 } { "_id" : ObjectId("5e4ea7d4f8647eb59e56203a"), "Name" : "Mike", "Age" : 25 } { "_id" : ObjectId("5e4ea7dcf8647eb59e56203b"), "Name" : "Carol", "Age" : 26 }