Details
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Bug
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Resolution: Fixed
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Blocker - P1
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*Location*: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/program/mongoexport/
*User-Agent*: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.36
*Referrer*: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/program/mongoimport/
*Screen Resolution*: 1366 x 768
*Location*: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/program/mongoexport/ *User-Agent*: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.36 *Referrer*: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/program/mongoimport/ *Screen Resolution*: 1366 x 768
Description
It is a common error for mongo "newbies" to attempt to run these commands from the shell. It would be very useful to add a sentence or two to the beginning of the documentation explaining that these commands, like 'mongod' itself, must be run from the system command line.