How to readin javascript code into the geth console?

Question

In the contracts tutorial, quite a long piece of code is provided on the geth console to the client:

[...]
function(e, contract){
  if(!e) {

    if(!contract.address) {
      console.log("Contract transaction send: TransactionHash: " + contract.transactionHash + " waiting to be mined...");

    } else {
      console.log("Contract mined! Address: " + contract.address);
      console.log(contract);
    }

  }
}

How could I provide this function definition from an external file to the console?, such that I don't have to write it all on the console which is quite inconveniente i find.

Answer 1

The loadScript function in geth takes an external JS file and executes it.

Example usage:

//somefile.js
function foo() {...};

In console:

loadScript('somefile.js');
foo();

It's loaded as if every line was executed directly, like node.js .load