Does MongoDB have a shell history file?

mongodb history interactive-shell
ma11hew28 picture ma11hew28 · Apr 22, 2011 · Viewed 23.3k times · Source

Does MongoDB have something like a .bash_history file?

I recently typed in a long command, closed & re-opened the shell, and want to retrieve it.

Pressing up doesn't work as it seems that the history of the last shell is not accessible in the new shell.

I installed 1.8.1 with Homebrew. Is there a configuration variable I should set that will turn on MongoDB interactive shell history logging?

Here's my mongod.conf file:

# Store data in /usr/local/var/mongodb instead of the default /data/db
dbpath = /usr/local/var/mongodb

# Only accept local connections
bind_ip = 127.0.0.1
# Enable Write Ahead Logging (not enabled by default in production deployments)
journal = true

Answer

lobster1234 picture lobster1234 · Apr 22, 2011

Yes, its in ~/.dbshell as of version 1.8.1 which I am using. But this could be something they added in 1.7+ as from what I recall 1.6.5 does not have it.

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