NAME¶
mongoimport - the Mongo import tool
SYNOPSIS¶
mongoimport [OPTIONS]
DESCRIPTION¶
mongoimport is a tool to import a MongoDB collection from JSON, CSV, or
TSV. The query can be filtered or a list of fields to input can be given.
OPTIONS¶
- --help
- show usage information
- -h, --host HOST
- server to connect to (default HOST=localhost)
- -d, --db DATABASE
- database to use
- -c, --c COLLECTION
- collection to use (some commands)
- --dbpath PATH
- directly access mongod data files in this path, instead of
connecting to a mongod instance
- -v, --verbose
- be more verbose (include multiple times for more verbosity
e.g. -vvvvv)
- -f, --fields NAMES
- comma separated list of field names e.g. -f
name,age
- --fieldFile FILE
- file with fields names - 1 per line
- --jsonArray
- load a json array, not one item per line. Currently limited
to 4MB.
- --ignoreBlanks
- if given, empty fields in csv and tsv will be ignored
- --type TYPE
- type of file to import. default: json (json,csv,tsv)
- --file FILE
- file to import from; if not specified stdin is used
- --drop
- drop collection first
- --headerline
- CSV,TSV only - use first line as headers
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright 2007-2009 10gen
SEE ALSO¶
For more information, please refer to the MongoDB wiki, available at
http://www.mongodb.org.
AUTHOR¶
Kristina Chodorow