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MongoDB: How to delete all the documents from a collection ?

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MongoDB: How to delete all the documents from a collection ?
posted Jun 23, 2015 by Vikram Singh

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Do you want to delete all the documents one by one or in one shot ?
commented Jun 23, 2015 by Neeraj Mishra

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Single command to delete all the documents from a collection is db.collection_name.remove({}) .
I have verified this command. Please let me know If you are still facing any problem.

answer Jun 24, 2015 by Harshita
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