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
--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