You have to use ‘print( "anything .." )‘ or printjson to display objects.
andrey@andrey:~$ mongo
MongoDB shell version: 2.0.2
connecting to: test
> object = { "name" : "any name .." , "key" : "value" }
{ "name" : "any name ..", "key" : "value" }
> printjson ( object )
{ "name" : "any name ..", "key" : "value" }
> print ( "hello world" )
hello world
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