I am trying to execute a .js from command line passing an arg to mongo like this:

$ mongo --eval 'var x="Test text"' insertArg.js

insertArg.js looks like this:

function insertArg; {
use PathTrackerDB;
var inputText = x;
var r =

{'history_text':inputText}

db.remote_history.insert(r);
}

I run the command:
$ mongo --eval 'var x="Test text"' insertArg.js

and I get the following output on the console:
MongoDB shell version: 3.2.10
connecting to: test
$

Then I go into the mongo shell and do a db.remote_history.count() and the collection has not been updated with the new row. I get no information good or bad from the shell script.

Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?

Much appreciated!

Thanks, Karen