You need to use "extended json" in queries with mongoexport. So the way to specify "dates" is with $date
instead. And the --query
is just the "query string" in JSON format. Not the whole command entered into the shell:
mongoexport --db ium --collection events \
--query '{
"created_at": {
"$gte": { "$date": "2016-03-01T00:00:00.001Z" },
"$lte": { "$date": "2016-03-29T23:59:59.000Z" }
},
"name": "UPDATE_SUCCESS"
}' \
--out guile1_test.json
Note also the corrected date string in the $lte
argument and of course the "quoting" use of ''
around the body of the JSON argument and ""
around the internal expressions and values. It s important that these types of quotes are different, as well as "shell arguments" should have their "outer" quotes as ''
, otherwise the "shell" tries to evaluate the expression contained.