Your example worked for me with MongoDB 1.6.3 and 1.7.3. Example below was for 1.7.3. Are you using an older version of MongoDB? $ cat > locations.csv Name,Address,City,State,ZIP Jane Doe,123 Main St,Whereverville,CA,90210 John Doe,555 Broadway Ave,New York,NY,10010 ctrl-d $ mongoimport -d mydb -c things –type csv –file locations.csv –headerline connected to: 127.0.0.1 imported 3 objects … Read more
I came up with a more elegant way to automatically import ALL collections: ls -1 *.json | sed ‘s/.json$//’ | while read col; do mongoimport -d db_name -c $col < $col.json; done I hope this is helpful.
I was able to fix the error using the following query: mongoimport –db dbName –collection collectionName –file fileName.json –jsonArray Hopefully this is helpful to someone.
Your example worked for me with MongoDB 1.6.3 and 1.7.3. Example below was for 1.7.3. Are you using an older version of MongoDB? $ cat > locations.csv Name,Address,City,State,ZIP Jane Doe,123 Main St,Whereverville,CA,90210 John Doe,555 Broadway Ave,New York,NY,10010 ctrl-d $ mongoimport -d mydb -c things –type csv –file locations.csv –headerline connected to: 127.0.0.1 imported 3 objects … Read more