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

I used a shell script to pipe a mongo command to mongo. In the mongo command I used an arg I passed to the shell script (i.e. i used $1):

#!/bin/sh

objId=$1
EVAL="db.account.find({\"_id\" : \"$objId\"})"
echo $EVAL | mongo localhost:27718/balance_mgmt --quiet