Aggregation task - $limit

A scope aggregation task that specifies the maximum number of rows to be retrieved.

The $limit function corresponds to the 'fetch first n rows' of a SQL query.

Syntax diagram

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Command arguments

size
An integer number to specify the number of documents that are returned with this query.

Example

Example 1

db.books.aggregate({"$limit": 3})