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You see it when the results of a find are too long to display in the terminal.

Type "it" for more

There's a good chance "it" just stands for it, but I'm not certain and I can't seem to find any documentation on it. For all I know, "it" could also be an abbreviation for "increment through".

What does it mean and is it convention to use "it" for pagination in the terminal?

artburkart
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    Documentation on Queries: The mongo shell will prompt the user to “Type it” to continue iterating the next 20 results. http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/mongo-shell/#queries – chaseadamsio Aug 22 '14 at 02:40

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It means "iterate", since your query has returned only a subset of the results.

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