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

Create a json file in the same folder where you have your mongod.exe.

eg: coll.json

and open a command prompt in this folder.

type this below in CMD.

mongoexport --db databasename --collection collectionname --out coll.json

and you will see like a progress bar very cool exporting all data.