How to execute mongo commands through shell scripts?

I want to execute mongo commands in shell script, e.g. in a script test.sh:

#!/bin/sh
mongo myDbName
db.mycollection.findOne()
show collections

When I execute this script via ./test.sh, then the connection to MongoDB is established, but the following commands are not executed.

How to execute other commands through shell script test.sh?

You can also evaluate a command using the --eval flag, if it is just a single command.

mongo --eval "printjson(db.serverStatus())"

Please note: if you are using Mongo operators, starting with a $ sign, you'll want to surround the eval argument in single quotes to keep the shell from evaluating the operator as an environment variable:

mongo --eval 'db.mycollection.update({"name":"foo"},{$set:{"this":"that"}});' myDbName

Otherwise you may see something like this:

mongo --eval "db.test.update({\"name\":\"foo\"},{$set:{\"this\":\"that\"}});"
> E QUERY    SyntaxError: Unexpected token :

Put your mongo script into a .js file.

Then execute mongo < yourFile.js

Ex:

demo.js //file has your script

use sample  //db name
show collections

keep this file in "c:\db-scripts"

Then in cmd prompt go to "c:\db-scripts"

C:\db-scripts>mongo < demo.js

This will execute the code in mongo and shows the output

C:\db-scripts>mongo < demo.js
Mongo shell version: 3.0.4
Connecting to: test
switched to db sample
users   //collection name
tasks   //collection name
bye
C:\db-scripts>

This works for me under Linux:

mongo < script.js

Put this in a file called test.js:

db.mycollection.findOne()
db.getCollectionNames().forEach(function(collection) {
  print(collection);
});

then run it with mongo myDbName test.js.

There is an official documentation page about this as well.

Examples from that page include:

mongo server:27017/dbname --quiet my_commands.js
mongo test --eval "printjson(db.getCollectionNames())"