mongoimport json file syntax

Question

I'm trying to import json document using mongoimport command and have tried all possible ways but it's giving be below error. Plz tell me what m I doing wrong here. I've given full path of json doc. I want to import big document having 800+ records but because it failing so currently my students.json contains simple one line {name : "Archana"} but even this is failing.

C:\data\db>mongo
2016-02-02T17:48:44.788+0530 I CONTROL  [main] Hotfix KB2731284 or later update is installed, no need to zero-out data
MongoDB shell version: 3.2.1
connecting to: test
> show collections
names
students
> mondoimport -d test -c students students.json
2016-02-02T17:50:21.001+0530 E QUERY    [thread1] SyntaxError: missing ; before statement @(shell):1:15

> mondoimport -d test -c students < students.json
2016-02-02T17:50:25.840+0530 E QUERY    [thread1] SyntaxError: missing ; before statement @(shell):1:15

> mondoimport -d test -c students < file students.json
2016-02-02T17:50:31.233+0530 E QUERY    [thread1] SyntaxError: missing ; before statement @(shell):1:15

> mondoimport -d test -c students < f students.json
2016-02-02T17:50:35.417+0530 E QUERY    [thread1] SyntaxError: missing ; before statement @(shell):1:15

> mondoimport -d test -c students < f C:\data\db\students.json
2016-02-02T17:50:51.658+0530 E QUERY    [thread1] SyntaxError: missing ; before statement @(shell):1:15

> mondoimport -d test -c students < f "C:\data\db\students.json"
2016-02-02T17:50:56.897+0530 E QUERY    [thread1] SyntaxError: missing ; before statement @(shell):1:15

> mondoimport -d test -c students C:\data\db\students.json
2016-02-02T17:51:06.849+0530 E QUERY    [thread1] SyntaxError: missing ; before statement @(shell):1:15

> mondoimport -db test -c students C:\data\db\students.json
2016-02-02T17:54:33.545+0530 E QUERY    [thread1] SyntaxError: missing ; before statement @(shell):1:16

> mondoimport --db test --collection students C:\data\db\students.json
2016-02-02T17:56:24.253+0530 E QUERY    [thread1] SyntaxError: missing ; before statement @(shell):1:14

> mondoimport --db test --collection students --file C:\data\db\students.json
2016-02-02T17:56:33.589+0530 E QUERY    [thread1] SyntaxError: missing ; before statement @(shell):1:14

> mondoimport --db test --collection students --file C:\data\db\students.json --jsonArray
2016-02-02T17:58:21.131+0530 E QUERY    [thread1] SyntaxError: missing ; before statement @(shell):1:14

> mondoimport --db test --collection students C:\data\db\students.json --jsonArray
2016-02-02T17:58:32.650+0530 E QUERY    [thread1] SyntaxError: missing ; before statement @(shell):1:14

Answer 1

You are probably running this command under mongo shell. As you can see in the path program files/mongodb/server/3.2/bin there is no command under mongod as mongoimport. So in order to solve the problem, navigate your cmd prompt to the file and without using mongo shell(mongo) run the command in cmd prompt.