July 2014
Intermediate to advanced
254 pages
5h 24m
English
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>.
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 ...Read now
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