mongoimport -h lan.ikunal.in --type csv -d hospitals -c list --headerline --drop hospital_directory.csv -u hospitals

• –type: The input format to import: json, csv, or tsv. We are using csv so that’s what we specify.
• -d: Specifies what database to use. We used the hospitals database.
• -c: Specifies what collection to use. We used a collection called list.
• --headerline: Specifies that the first row in our csv file should be the field names.
• --drop: Specifies that we want to drop the collection before importing documents.
• -u: specifys the user to log in