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Syntax

    dataset list COLLECTION_NAME KEYS

Description

Write a JSON array to standard out (unless you’ve specific an alternative location with the “-output” option) for the provided KEYS. If no ids are provided (or none are found) then an empty JSON array is return.

Usage

An example we’re assuming there is are JSON documents with a KEYS of “r1”, “r2”, and “r3”. Our collection name is “data.ds”

    dataset list data.ds r1 r2 r3

If “r1” was ‘{“one”:1}‘, “r2” was ‘{“two”:2}’ and “r3” was ‘{“three”:3}’ then the output would be

    [{"one":1},{"two":2},{"three":3}]

Related topics: keys, read