Skip to Content
Cloudera Administration Handbook
book

Cloudera Administration Handbook

by Rohit Menon
July 2014
Intermediate to advanced
254 pages
5h 24m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Cloudera Administration Handbook

Exploring HDFS commands

To perform filesystem related tasks, the commands begin with hdfs dfs. The filesystem commands have been designed to behave similarly to the corresponding Unix/Linux filesystem commands.

What is a URI? URI stands for Uniform Resource Identifier. In the commands that are listed as follows, you will observe the use of URI for file locations. The URI syntax to access a file in HDFS is hdfs://namenodehost/parent/child/<file>.

Commonly used HDFS commands

The following are some of the most commonly used HDFS commands:

  • ls: This command lists files in HDFS.

    The syntax of the ls command is hdfs dfs -ls <args>. The following is the screenshot showing an example of the ls command:

  • cat: This command displays the contents of file/files in ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Hadoop Security

Hadoop Security

Ben Spivey, Joey Echeverria
Oracle RMAN 11g Backup and Recovery

Oracle RMAN 11g Backup and Recovery

Robert Freeman, Matthew Hart

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781783558964