How to pass argument to Mongo Script

Question

I\'ve been using mongo and script files like this:

$ mongo getSimilar.js

I would like to pass an argument to the file:

$ mo         


        

Answer 1

Set a shell var:

password='bladiebla'

Create js script:

cat < mongo-create-user.js
print('drop user admin');
db.dropUser('admin');
db.createUser({
user: 'admin',
pwd: '${password}',
roles: [ 'readWrite']
});
EOT

Pass script to mongo:

mongo mongo-create-user.js