MONGOIMPORT(1)

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 seperated list of field names e.g. -f name,age

--fieldFile FILE
    file with fields names - 1 per line

--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