How to stop mongo DB in one command

Question

I need to be able to start/stop MongoDB on the cli. It is quite simple to start:

./mongod

But to stop mongo DB, I need to run open m

Answer 1

If you literally want a one line equivalent to the commands in your original question, you could alias:

mongo --eval "db.getSiblingDB('admin').shutdownServer()"

Mark's answer on starting and stopping MongoDB via services is the more typical (and recommended) administrative approach.