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

Answer 1

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