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Using MarkLogic Content Pump (mlcp)

Loading a Single File

Use the following procedure to load all the files in a native directory and its sub-directories. To load selected files, see Filtering Documents Loaded from a Directory.

  1. Set -input_file_path to the path to the input file.

  2. Set -input_file_type if your input files are not documents. For example, if loading from delimited text files, sequence files, aggregate XML files, RDF triples files, or database archives.

  3. Set -document_type if -input_file_type is not documents and the content type cannot be accurately deduced from the file suffixes as described in How mlcp Determines Document Type.

  4. Set -mode: To perform the work locally, set -mode to local.

By default, the imported document has a database URI based on the input file path. For details, see Controlling Database URIs During Ingestion.

The following example command loads a single XML file:

# Windows users, see Modifying the Example Commands for Windows
$ mlcp.sh import -host localhost -port 8000 -username user \
    -password password -input_file_path /space/bill/data/hamlet.xml
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