MONGOIMPORT(1)

NAME

mongoimport - the Mongo import tool

mongoimport [OPTIONS]

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; --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

Kristina Chodorow