Ilija Matoski

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    Dropping all collections in a MongoDB database

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    I needed to drop all the collections in a database without dropping the database.

    The easiest way for would be to run the following javascript command.

    var dbName = 'exampleDb';
    db.getSiblingDB(dbName).getCollectionNames().forEach(function(collName) {
        if (!collName.startsWith("system.")) {
            print("Dropping ["+dbName+"."+collName+"]");
            db[collName].drop();
        }
    })