document doesn't break lines on new line characters in mongo shell

[Ankit Chandra]

Hi!

I am trying to load an entire log file into a document in mongodb. I
first break the log file into lines, do some processing on the
individual lines and then concatenate them together to insert them
into mongodb. Now the issue is that no matter what I try,
db.collection.find(), or db.collection.find().pretty() commands don't
display the inserted documents broken up into separate lines, on the
basis of the "\n"s I added in between the lines.

What am I missing? How can I add new line characters to the document
such that i can have them on a new line as needed? it currently shows
up as:

> db.r_20120322110650_20040911.find().pretty();
{
"_id" : ObjectId("507f94161a86693a1a000000"),

"generic" : "\n -- beginning my random stuff \n -- ExecProg: Running
fullcommand = /usr/bin/time --verbose -o what-on-earth.txt \n this is
crazy/ ........
...
...
...
}

Notice the "\n"s strewn all about the document...

Any way I can have it show up as:

> db.r_20120322110650_20040911.find().pretty();
{
"_id" : ObjectId("507f94161a86693a1a000000"),

"generic" : "
-- beginning my random stuff
-- ExecProg: Running fullcommand = /usr/bin/time --verbose -o what-on-
earth.txt
this is crazy/ ........
...
...
...
}


Thanks!

[Kay]

Hi Ankit -- 

I believe you just want:

obj = db.r_20120322110650_20040911.find().forEach( function (myrecord) { print ("_id: " + myrecord._id); print ("generic:" + myrecord.generic); } )

This will print out:

_id: 5090139bd96f9f6c99b00b1b

generic:

 -- beginning my random stuff 

 -- ExecProg: Running fullcommand = /usr/bin/time --verbose -o what-on-earth.txt 

  this is  crazy/ ... 

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Kay

[Ankit Chandra]

That works like a charm! Thanks Kay :)