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 was also stuck in same situation and found what was causing it.

1. Make sure you are exporting in CSV format by adding parameter --type csv
2. Make sure there are no spaces in fields name, Example: --fields _id, desc is wrong but --fields id,desc,price is good