How to delete lots of mongodb collections at once?

Question

There are a lot of mongodb collections in my database that I need to delete. They all have similar names, and it would be easy to delete them if only wildcard characters cou

Answer 1

# Delete Particular Collections From MongoDB

> use database_name

> delete_collection_list = ["collection1", "collection2", "collection3", "collection4", "collection5", "collection6"]

> delete_collection_list.forEach( function (collection) {
    if (db.getCollectionNames().indexOf(collection)>=0) {
        db.getCollection(collection).drop();
        print("Deleted Collection: "+ collection);
    }
  })