Is there a better alternative to the Mongo shell?

Question

Dear Everyone,

Is there a better shell than the native mongo shell?

1. When I press UP I am seeing ^[[A . Does the shell not support last query?
2. Tabbing in the shell does not autocomplete either.
3. Of course, if there's a shell with syntax highlighting that would be great

Is there an alternative that has the following features? (Or at least has some of them).

EDIT:Yeah I downloaded the main package, and it works out fine. I think ubuntu's repos has a version that did not compile with proper configurations.

Answer 1

Up works for me, I see the last query. What kind of OS do you use?

Read here for tools: http://blog.timgourley.com/post/453680012/tuesday-night-tech-mongodb-ui-edition and http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Admin+UIs

Answer 2

did you build from source? if so, do you have readline installed? my guess is that you're missing readline and that's why things are a bit ugly (the build would've warned about that, as well).

Answer 3

if other suggestions don't work, use rlwrap as a workaround