How to execute mongo commands through shell scripts?

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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 :

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