SyntaxError while restoring MongoDB dump

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I am facing this error SyntaxError: syntax error (shell):0. I am using ubuntu. I have tried like this. First open the terminal and type mongo

MongoDB shell version: 2.0.4
connecting to: test
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after that I have switched to the database I want to create test1 then used the folowing command

./mongorestore -h localhost:27017 -d test1 /home/ratheesh/testdev

I got this error

Wed May 16 12:33:03 SyntaxError: syntax error (shell):0
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Please help me to fix this issue

jhonkola · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-16 07:52:20Z

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mongodump, mongorestore etc. are executable programs and are not supposed to be run from mongo shell. Run the restore command from the command line and after running it start mongo and verify that the data appeared in database.

answered May 16, 2012 at 7:52

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