The FileSystem (FS) shell is invoked by bin/hadoop fs <args>. All FS shell commands take path URIs as arguments. The URI format is scheme://autority/path. For HDFS the scheme is hdfs, and for the local filesystem the scheme isfile. The scheme and authority are optional. If not specified, the default scheme specified in the configuration is used. An HDFS file or directory such as /parent/child can be specified as hdfs://namenodehost/parent/child or simply as/parent/child (given that your configuration is set to point tohdfs://namenodehost). Most of the commands in FS shell behave like corresponding Unix commands. Differences are described with each of the commands. Error information is sent to stderr and the output is sent to stdout.
Usage: hadoop fs -cat URI [URI …]
Copies source paths to stdout.
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Returns 0 on success and -1 on error.
Usage: hadoop fs -chgrp [-R] GROUP URI [URI …]
Change group association of files. With -R, make the change recursively through the directory structure. The user must be the owner of files, or else a super-user. Additional information is in the HDFS Admin Guide: Permissions.
Usage: hadoop fs -chmod [-R] <MODE[,MODE]... | OCTALMODE> URI [URI …]
Change the permissions of files. With -R, make the change recursively through the directory structure. The user must be the owner of the file, or else a super-user. Additional information is in the HDFS Admin Guide: Permissions.
Usage: hadoop fs -chown [-R] [OWNER][:[GROUP]] URI [URI ]
Change the owner of files. With -R, make the change recursively through the directory structure. The user must be a super-user. Additional information is in the HDFS Admin Guide: Permissions.
Usage: hadoop fs -copyFromLocal <localsrc> URI
Similar to put command, except that the source is restricted to a local file reference.
Usage: hadoop fs -copyToLocal [-ignorecrc] [-crc] URI <localdst>
Similar to get command, except that the destination is restricted to a local file reference.
Usage: hadoop fs -count [-q] <paths>
Count the number of directories, files and bytes under the paths that match the specified file pattern. The output columns are:
DIR_COUNT, FILE_COUNT, CONTENT_SIZE FILE_NAME.
The output columns with -q are:
QUOTA, REMAINING_QUATA, SPACE_QUOTA, REMAINING_SPACE_QUOTA, DIR_COUNT, FILE_COUNT, CONTENT_SIZE, FILE_NAME.
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Usage: hadoop fs -cp URI [URI …] <dest>
Copy files from source to destination. This command allows multiple sources as well in which case the destination must be a directory.
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Usage: hadoop fs -du URI [URI …]
Displays aggregate length of files contained in the directory or the length of a file in case its just a file.
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hadoop fs -du /user/hadoop/dir1 /user/hadoop/file1 hdfs://nn.example.com/user/hadoop/dir1
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Returns 0 on success and -1 on error.
Usage: hadoop fs -dus <args>
Displays a summary of file lengths.
Usage: hadoop fs -expunge
Empty the Trash. Refer to HDFS Architecture for more information on Trash feature.
Usage: hadoop fs -get [-ignorecrc] [-crc] <src> <localdst>
Copy files to the local file system. Files that fail the CRC check may be copied with the -ignorecrc option. Files and CRCs may be copied using the -crc option.
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Usage: hadoop fs -getmerge <src> <localdst> [addnl]
Takes a source directory and a destination file as input and concatenates files in src into the destination local file. Optionally addnl can be set to enable adding a newline character at the end of each file.
Usage: hadoop fs -ls <args>
For a file returns stat on the file with the following format:
permissions number_of_replicas userid groupid filesize modification_date modification_time filename
For a directory it returns list of its direct children as in unix.A directory is listed as:
permissions userid groupid modification_date modification_time dirname
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hadoop fs -ls /user/hadoop/file1
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Returns 0 on success and -1 on error.
Usage: hadoop fs -lsr <args>
Recursive version of ls. Similar to Unix ls -R.
Usage: hadoop fs -mkdir <paths>
Takes path uri's as argument and creates directories. The behavior is much like unix mkdir -p creating parent directories along the path.
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Usage: dfs -moveFromLocal <localsrc> <dst>
Similar to put command, except that the source localsrc is deleted after it's copied.
Usage: hadoop fs -moveToLocal [-crc] <src> <dst>
Displays a "Not implemented yet" message.
Usage: hadoop fs -mv URI [URI …] <dest>
Moves files from source to destination. This command allows multiple sources as well in which case the destination needs to be a directory. Moving files across filesystems is not permitted.
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Usage: hadoop fs -put <localsrc> ... <dst>
Copy single src, or multiple srcs from local file system to the destination filesystem. Also reads input from stdin and writes to destination filesystem.
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Returns 0 on success and -1 on error.
Usage: hadoop fs -rm [-skipTrash] URI [URI …]
Delete files specified as args. Only deletes non empty directory and files. If the -skipTrash option is specified, the trash, if enabled, will be bypassed and the specified file(s) deleted immediately. This can be useful when it is necessary to delete files from an over-quota directory. Refer to rmr for recursive deletes.
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Usage: hadoop fs -rmr [-skipTrash] URI [URI …]
Recursive version of delete. If the -skipTrash option is specified, the trash, if enabled, will be bypassed and the specified file(s) deleted immediately. This can be useful when it is necessary to delete files from an over-quota directory.
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Usage: hadoop fs -setrep [-R] <path>
Changes the replication factor of a file. -R option is for recursively increasing the replication factor of files within a directory.
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Returns 0 on success and -1 on error.
Usage: hadoop fs -stat URI [URI …]
Returns the stat information on the path.
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Returns 0 on success and -1 on error.
Usage: hadoop fs -tail [-f] URI
Displays last kilobyte of the file to stdout. -f option can be used as in Unix.
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Usage: hadoop fs -test -[ezd] URI
Options:
-e check to see if the file exists. Return 0 if true.
-z check to see if the file is zero length. Return 0 if true.
-d check to see if the path is directory. Return 0 if true.
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Usage: hadoop fs -text <src>
Takes a source file and outputs the file in text format. The allowed formats are zip and TextRecordInputStream.
Usage: hadoop fs -touchz URI [URI …]
Create a file of zero length.
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Returns 0 on success and -1 on error.