debian man page for mongoimport

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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

10gen								   January 2010 						    MONGOIMPORT(1)