Delete Multiple Documents Using MongoDB Shell Examples

Let’s look at some examples of how to delete multiple documents using MongoDB Shell.

In the following examples, we are working with:

Database: w3wiki
Collection: contributor
Document: four documents that contain the details of the contributors in the form of field-value pairs.

Delete Documents that Match a Filter Example

In this example, we are deleting multiple documents from the contributor collection that match the filter, i.e., language: “C#”.

Deleting All Documents Example

In this example, we are deleting all the documents from the contributor collection by passing empty documents in the db.collection.deleteMany() method.

db.contributor.deleteMany({})

The db.collection.deleteMany() method is used to delete multiple documents from a collection in Mongo Shell. This method deletes multiple documents from the collection according to the filter.

The deleteMany() is a Mongo shell method, which can delete multiple documents. This method can be used in multi-document transactions. If you use this method in a capped collection, then it will throw an exception.