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

You can't do that, but you could put them in another script and load that first:

// vars.js
msg = "apples";

and getSimilar.js was:

print(msg);

Then:

$ mongo vars.js getSimilar.js
MongoDB shell version: blah
connecting to: test
loading file: vars.js
loading file: getSimilar.js
apples

Not quite as convenient, though.