title: Neo4j-admin import examples
body: <p>Can you give me example for a neo4j-admin import command. </p>
  
  <p>After reading the man page </p>
  
  <pre><code>kaushik@machine1:/neo4j/import$ ../bin/neo4j-admin import                                                                   No input specified, nothing to import     
  usage: neo4j-admin import [--mode=csv] [--database=&lt;name&gt;]
                        [--additional-config=&lt;config-file-path&gt;]
                        [--report-file=&lt;filename&gt;]
                        [--nodes[:Label1:Label2]=&lt;"file1,file2,..."&gt;]
                        [--relationships[:RELATIONSHIP_TYPE]=&lt;"file1,file2,..."&gt;]
                        [--id-type=&lt;STRING|INTEGER|ACTUAL&gt;]
                        [--input-encoding=&lt;character-set&gt;]
                        [--ignore-extra-columns[=&lt;true|false&gt;]]
                        [--ignore-duplicate-nodes[=&lt;true|false&gt;]]
                        [--ignore-missing-nodes[=&lt;true|false&gt;]]
  usage: neo4j-admin import --mode=database [--database=&lt;name&gt;]
                        [--additional-config=&lt;config-file-path&gt;]
                        [--from=&lt;source-directory&gt;]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I tried </p>
  
  <pre><code>../bin/neo4j-admin import --database=social.db --id-type string --nodes[:label1]=head.csv,file1.csv.gz 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I followed the header file conventions given at end of this blog <a href="https://neo4j.com/blog/bulk-data-import-neo4j-3-0/" rel="noreferrer">https://neo4j.com/blog/bulk-data-import-neo4j-3-0/</a></p>
  
  <p>The errors that I got</p>
  
  <p>Expected '--nodes' to have at least 1 valid item, but had 0 []</p>
  
  <p>or  "nodes[" unrecognized command </p>