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

In my case, I had to write the port separately from the server connection. This worked for me:

mongoexport --host=HOST --port=PORT --db=DB --collection=COLLECTION --out=OUTPUT.json -u USER -p PASS