mongo shell script won't let me include “use ”

Question

32-bit mongo 2.0.1 on a windows XP machine

//script filename: test.js  (one line shell script file to store a person)
db.cTest.save({Name: \"Fred\", Age:21})         


        

Answer 1

Well, it still is unfortunate that "load('file.js')" and "mongo file.js" don't actually use the same script interpreter as the interactive mongo shell. Opening the connection explicitly in the script is potentially a violation of the DRY principle because mongo already knows that information. What does work, though, is piping the file into mongo rather than passing its name on the command line:

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