JS Scripts

Running JS Scripts on MongoDB

Contents

Create a Script
Run a Script

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JavaScript can be used to manipulate a MongoDB Database from within the mongo shell. To do this you can make use of the mongo shell

Create a Script

To create a script, you simply need to create a .js file, the db object will be the current database (set when running the script) and pretty much holds the database reference

Note that print is used instead of console.log

MyDbScript.js

print(db)

Run a Script

To run the script, you will do the following from the terminal:

mongo DBName MyDbScript.js

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