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 issue while using the "mongod --dbpath" command. What I was doing looked somewhat like this:

mongod --dbpath c:/Users/HP/Desktop/Mongo_Data

where as the command syntax was supposed to be:

mongod --dbpath=c:/Users/HP/Desktop/Mongo_Data

This worked for me. Apart from this one may take a note of the command function and syntaxes using the mongod --help command.