How to list all databases in the mongo shell

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I know how to list all collections in a particular database  but how do I list all available databases in MongoDB shell

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Listing all the databases in mongoDB console is using the command show dbs    For more information on this  refer the Mongo Shell Command Helpers that can be used in the mongo shell

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For database list   show databases show dbs   For table collection list   show collections show tables db getCollectionNames

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For MongoDB shell version 3 0 5 insert the following command in the shell   db adminCommand  listDatabases     or alternatively   db getMongo   getDBNames

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I have found one solution  where admin   others didn t worked   const   promisify     require  util    const exec   promisify require  child process   exec  async function test       var res   await exec  mongo  --eval  db adminCommand    listDatabases  1               --quiet     return   res      test      then resp   gt        console log  All dbs   JSON parse resp res stdout  databases       test

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To list mongodb database on shell    show databases       Print a list of all available databases   show dbs      Print a list of all databases on the server    Few more basic commands  use  lt db gt        Switch current database to  lt db gt   The mongo shell variable db is set to the current database  show collections      Print a list of all collections for current database  show users    Print a list of users for current database  show roles    Print a list of all roles  both user-defined and built-in  for the current database

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From the command line issue  mongo --quiet --eval   printjson db adminCommand  listDatabases       which gives output         databases                             name     admin                sizeOnDisk    978944               empty    false                                   name     local                sizeOnDisk    77824               empty    false                                   name     meteor                sizeOnDisk    778240               empty    false                       totalSize    1835008       ok    1

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Couple of commands are there to list all dbs in MongoDB shell  first   launch Mongodb shell using  mongo  command   mongo  Then use any of the below commands to list all the DBs   show dbs show databases db adminCommand    listDatabases  1   nameOnly   true      For more details please check here Thank you

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