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MongoDB Shell

mongosh

The MongoDB Shell is a fully functional JavaScript and Node.js REPL environment for interacting with MongoDB deployments.

Detected by mongosh | macOS, Linux, Windows |www.mongodb.com

Sync it mongosh.toml

Sync rules

What travels, what stays, what never leaves

MongoDB Shell in your home directory Every rule on this page, by file

· ~/.mongoshrc.js Sync

{"enableTelemetry":false,"displayBatchSize":50,"inspectDepth":8,"inspectCompact":3,"historyLength":5000,"redactHistory":"remove-redact","showStackTraces":true,"logRetentionDays":14,"logLocation":"/Users/octocat/Library/Logs/mongosh"}

machine-local

Each machine keeps its own copy of these.

· mongosh_repl_history Exclude

· snippets/ Exclude

{"enableTelemetry":false,"displayBatchSize":50,"inspectDepth":8,"inspectCompact":3,"historyLength":5000,"redactHistory":"remove-redact","showStackTraces":true,"logRetentionDays":14,"logLocation":"/Users/octocat/Library/Logs/mongosh"}

machine-local

Each machine keeps its own copy of these.

· mongosh_repl_history Exclude

· snippets/ Exclude

Only what the catalog names. A directory that syncs brings everything inside it except what is listed as excluded here.

apps/mongosh.tomlThe file this page is generated from

id = "mongosh"

name = "MongoDB Shell"

homepage = "https://www.mongodb.com/docs/mongodb-shell/"

description = "The MongoDB Shell is a fully functional JavaScript and Node.js REPL environment for interacting with MongoDB deployments."

icon = "SimpleIcons:mongodb"

detect = ["mongosh"]

# Two user-level files.

# https://www.mongodb.com/docs/mongodb-shell/mongoshrc/ — "On startup, mongosh

# checks your HOME directory for a JavaScript file named .mongoshrc.js."

# The settings the `config` API writes live in mongosh's roaming data

# directory, named `config` with no extension and written as EJSON. From

# packages/cli-repl/src/config-directory.ts:

# getStoragePaths(): on win32 shellRoamingDataPath = %APPDATA%/mongodb/mongosh,

# otherwise $HOME/.mongodb/mongosh; ConfigManager.path() = roamingPath('config').

# The global config file (/etc/mongosh.conf, mongosh.cfg beside the binary) is

# system-wide, so it is not listed.

paths = [

"~/.mongoshrc.js",

"~/.mongodb/mongosh/config",

"%APPDATA%/mongodb/mongosh/config",

]

# Both live in the same roaming directory as the config file. The history is

# the REPL's transcript and the snippets directory is an npm checkout mongosh

# manages itself.

exclude = [

"~/.mongodb/mongosh/mongosh_repl_history",

"%APPDATA%/mongodb/mongosh/mongosh_repl_history",

"~/.mongodb/mongosh/snippets/",

"%APPDATA%/mongodb/mongosh/snippets/",

]

# The config file holds only the CliUserConfig keys (packages/types/src/index.ts):

# display and logging preferences plus the telemetry flag. Connection strings

# are passed on the command line, and .mongoshrc.js is a script the user wrote.

secret = []

# No side_effect = false: `config.set(...)` in a live shell rewrites the file

# from memory, so a running mongosh will clobber anything written under it.

# logLocation is documented as "Directory where MongoDB Shell writes log files.

# Specify an absolute filepath" — a directory on this machine's disk. The file

# is named `config` with no extension, so format has to be declared; mongosh

# writes it with EJSON.stringify, which is JSON.

# It is written only when the user redirects the logs somewhere of their own

# choosing, so the path is worth keeping to rebuild this machine and worth

# nothing on the next one.

[[machine_lines]]

file = ["~/.mongodb/mongosh/config", "%APPDATA%/mongodb/mongosh/config"]

format = "json"

match = { key_path = ["logLocation"] }

scope = "backup"

Use it with your dotfile manager

Same data, in the shape your tool already reads

Opens Otty and adds this tool to what it syncs

Opens otty://sync/add/mongosh. Otty ships with this catalog, so the link only has to name the tool — nothing is downloaded.

Every one of these is generated from the same rules as this page. None of them splits logLocation and logLocation for you — that part is Otty’s own sync, or a template you write by hand.