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Using MarkLogic Content Pump (mlcp)

Loading All the Files in a Directory

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 input directory.

  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, 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 documents have database URIs based on the input file path. For details, see Controlling Database URIs During Ingestion.

The following example command loads all the files in /space/bill/data:

# 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
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