mongodb-error validating settings: only one positional argument is allowed

Question

I just moved to a new laptop which had mongo 3.0.0 I believe. On the new laptop I have mongo 3.0.4. and trying the script that was working on the old laptop is giving me errors

Answer 1

None of the above mentioned answers solved my problem but they indeed helped me in figuring out what I was doing wrong.(I am using windows)

1)using -d instead of --d (shorthand only require one - not two --)

2)using "" for absolute file path.

3)Changing \ to / in file path location.

For example my files location in windows is: C:\kp github\other projects\projectXyz\myFile.csv

So for me the command that worked was:

mongoimport -d users -c contacts --type=csv --headerline --file="C:/kp github/other projects/projectXyz/myFile.csv" or

mongoimport -d users -c contacts --type csv --headerline --file "C:/kp github/other projects/projectXyz/myFile.csv"

where users is my db name and contacts is my collection name