From fb99e615981409f441f33899beb992376858057c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: kelseiv <47797004+kelseiv@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2019 17:30:52 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md

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 importer/README.md | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/importer/README.md b/importer/README.md
index 7b0dd8753a..489a30386c 100644
--- a/importer/README.md
+++ b/importer/README.md
@@ -171,15 +171,15 @@ See below for more information.
  influx -import -path=metrics-default
  ```
 
- To redirect failed import lines to another file, run this command:
+ To redirect failed import messages (errors and output) to a file called failure, run this command:
 
  ```sh
- influx -import -path=metrics-default.gz -compressed > failures
+ influx -import -path=metrics-default.gz -compressed 2> failures 2>&1
  ```
 
  The import will use the line protocol in batches of 5,000 lines per batch when sending data to the server.
  
-### Throttiling the import
+### Throttling the import
  
  If you need to throttle the import so the database has time to ingest, you can use the `-pps` flag.  This will limit the points per second that will be sent to the server.