title: Mongodb insert document via shell
body: <p>I want to perform crud operation on my collection. To automate this, I wrote a script for inserting documents on my collection. </p>
  
  <p>This script should basically read the data from a json file and insert it into my db-collection.</p>
  
  <pre><code>'use strict';
  const fs = require('fs');
  const path = require('path');
  const { spawn }= require('child_process');
  
  (function () {
      const username = process.env.DB_USERNAME,
          password = process.env.DB_PASSWORD,
          args = process.argv.slice(3),
          log = console.log,
          mongoServer = "mongodb+srv://***server-name***/";
  
      let database,
          documents,
          collection;
  
  
      if (args.length === 2) {
          database = args[0];
          collection = args[1];
  
          const raw = fs.readFileSync(path.join(__dirname, 'documents.json'));
          documents = JSON.parse(raw);
  
          log(documents)
          const writeAction = spawn('mongo', [`\"${mongoServer}${database}\" -u ${username} -p ${password} --eval \"db.${collection}.insert(${documents})\"  `], {shell: true});
          writeAction.stdout.on('data', data =&gt; log((`stout: ${data}`));
          writeAction.stderr.on('data', data =&gt; log((`StdErr: ${data}`)));
          writeAction.on('close', (code) =&gt; log(`Child process exited with code: ${code}.`));
      } else {
          log('A database and a collection has to be specified!\n In Order:\n 1. Database\n 2. Collection');
          process.exit(1);
      }
  })();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>If I read the json file the console log the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[ { id: '3685b542-61d5-45da-9580-162dca725966',
      mission:
       'The American Red Cross prevents and alleviates human suffering in the face of emergencies by mobilizing the power of volunteers and the generosity of donors.',
      street1: '2025 E Street, NW',
      profile_url:
       'https://www.pledgeling.com/organizations/42/american-red-cross' } ]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So the json looks fine to me but if I execute the script it throws me the error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>stout: 2019-11-08T18:08:33.901+0100 E  QUERY    [js] uncaught exception: SyntaxError: missing ] after element list :
  @(shell eval):1:23
  2019-11-08T18:08:33.901+0100 E  -        [main] exiting with code -4
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Does any of you know how to overcome this error?</p>