How do I abort a running query in the MongoDB shell?

Question

I can't believe I have to ask this, but how do I stop a query I just ran, which is now running, and will obviously take a very long time to complete in the Mongo shell? Control+C appears to crash the shell, and spits out a ton of errors. The silly solutions suggested in this post of course do not do anything. I understand that I could like open up another terminal tab and run db.currentOp(), find the operation ID, and then run db.killOp(), but I can't believe that's the only solution. I must be missing something obvious.

Answer 1

Based on Alex's answer.

1. Query current running operations:

   db.currentOp() 

2. Kill the operation based on opid

   db.killOp(30318806) 

Answer 2

According to Mongo documentation, you should:

1. Obtain the current operation ID via db.currentOp()
2. Kill opp via db.killOp()

Good example script can be found here.