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$natural

$natural¶

$natural¶

Use the $natural operator to use natural order for the results of a sort operation. Natural order refers to the order of documents in the file on disk.

The $natural operator uses the following syntax to return documents in the order they exist on disk:

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db.collection.find().sort( { $natural: 1 } )

Use -1 to return documents in the reverse order as they occur on disk:

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db.collection.find().sort( { $natural: -1 } )