How to Import .bson file format on mongodb

Just for reference if anyone is still struggling with mongorestore.

You have to run monogorestore in terminal/command prompt and not in mongo console.

$ mongorestore -d db_name /path_to_mongo_dump/

for more details you can visit official documentations

https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/program/mongorestore/

If your access remotely you can do it

for bson:

mongorestore --host m2.mongodb.net --port 27016 --ssl --username $user --password $password --authenticationDatabase $authdb -d test -c people "/home/${USER}/people.bson"

for bson compressed in .gz (gzip) format:

mongorestore --host m2.mongodb.net --port 27016 --ssl --username $user --password $password --authenticationDatabase $authdb -d test -c people --gzip --dir "/home/${USER}/people.bson.gz"

In mongodb 3.0 or above, we can specify database name to restore. Assuming that you are standing at the root directory that contains bson files

./
a.bson
b.metadata.bson
...

The script would be

for FILENAME in *; do mongorestore -d <db_name> -c "${FILENAME%.*}" $FILENAME; done

mongorestore -d db_name /path/

make sure you run this query in bin folder of mongoDb

C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\4.2\bin -

then run this above command.