OIFS=$IFS; IFS=","; # fill in your details here dbname=DBNAME user=USERNAME pass=PASSWORD host=HOSTNAME:PORT # first get all collections in the database collections=`mongo "$host/$dbname" -u $user -p $pass --eval "rs.slaveOk();db.getCollectionNames();"`; collections=`mongo $dbname --eval "rs.slaveOk();db.getCollectionNames();"`; collectionArray=($collections); # for each collection for ((i=0; i<${#collectionArray[@]}; ++i)); do echo 'exporting collection' ${collectionArray[$i]} # get comma separated list of keys. do this by peeking into the first document in the collection and get his set of keys keys=`mongo "$host/$dbname" -u $user -p $pass --eval "rs.slaveOk();var keys = []; for(var key in db.${collectionArray[$i]}.find().sort({_id: -1}).limit(1)[0]) { keys.push(key); }; keys;" --quiet`; # now use mongoexport with the set of keys to export the collection to csv mongoexport --host $host -u $user -p $pass -d $dbname -c ${collectionArray[$i]} --fields "$keys" --csv --out $dbname.${collectionArray[$i]}.csv; done IFS=$OIFS;