mongodb - What does "too many positional options" mean when doing a mongoexport?

Question

mongoexport -h db.mysite.com -u myUser -p myPass -c myCollection

But the response I get is:

ERROR: too many positional options

What's that about?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7521163/what-does-too-many-positional-options-mean-when-doing-a-mongoexport

Answer 1

I had this same problem. In my case, I was using mongoexport with the --query option, which expects a JSON document, such as:

mongoexport ... --query {field: 'value'} ...

I needed to surround the document with quotes:

mongoexport ... --query "{field: 'value'}" ...