mongoimport syntaxerror unexpected identifier

Question

Following the Getting started with MongoDB tutorial at

https://docs.mongodb.org/getting-started/node/import-data/

Trying to import the example database using the given code

mongoimport --db test --collection restaurants --drop --file primer-dataset.json

I get

2015-07-09T21:52:17.396+1200 E QUERY    SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier

I am running this in a bash shell with mongod running in another shell. I have tried copying the data several times in case it was a problem with the json file, and even substituting the data with a very simple json file but the problem persists. Can someone help, please.

Answer 1

You command is correct. Use it from the terminal and not inside the mongo shell. However, I would make a small tweak to your mongoimport as below just to make it generic: On the terminal :

mongoimport --db test --collection restaurants --drop --file /<complete-path>/primer-dataset.json

So, if file is in /myimports folder then it would be :

mongoimport --db test --collection restaurants --drop --file /myimports/primer-dataset.json