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?

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'}" ... 

Answer 2

I had the same problem. Found a group post somewhere which said to remove the space between the '-p' and the password, which worked for me.

Your sample command should be:

mongoexport -h db.mysite.com -u myUser -pmyPass -c myCollection