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$skip (aggregation)¶
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$skip
¶ Skips over the specified number of documents that pass through the
$skip
in the pipeline before passing all of the remaining input.$skip
takes a single numeric (positive whole number) value as a parameter. Once the operation has skipped the specified number of documents, it passes all the remaining documents along the pipeline without alteration. Consider the following example:This operation skips the first 5 documents passed to it by the pipeline.
$skip
has no effect on the content of the documents it passes along the pipeline.