sh file to construct mongo document - bash

Question

My document structure looks like this:
{"name":"John", "age":32, ...other fields}
All other fields need not be initialized, only name and age. I want to make a script that takes in name and number
./client.sh John 32
and in the script, it will do something like
db.client.insert({"name":$1,"age":$2});
how to achieve this?

Answer 1

Here is a simple example script that works
#!/bin/bash
if [ $# -lt 2 ]
then
echo "USAGE: $0 name age"
exit 1
fi
mongo <<EOF
use test
db.client.insert({"name":"$1", "age":$2})
db.client.find()
EOF
It assumes that mongo is installed and in your path and that you have the client collection in the test database.
A sample run below
hduser#localhost:~/temp$ ./mongo_ins.sh "overflow" 20
MongoDB shell version: 2.6.10
connecting to: test
switched to db test
WriteResult({ "nInserted" : 1 })
{ "_id" : ObjectId("56b35d134c24bf7c1190cfb3"), "name" : "Stack", "age" : 1 }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("56b35dabe23223802ea3fa61"), "name" : { }, "age" : 10 }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("56b35ebbd69a0abeeb817fe3"), "name" : "overflow", "age" : 20 }
bye
Hope this helps