What does count command in Hadoop tells

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Can anyone explain me the output of the count command? There are 3 columns in the output, what does they suggest?

hdfs dfs -count <path>
 **5         3603         2099476898    <path>**
Apr 23, 2018 in Big Data Hadoop by Shubham
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The output of the count command are: DIR_COUNT, FILE_COUNT, CONTENT_SIZE, PATHNAME

You can go through this official documentation to understand more:

https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.7.1/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-common/FileSystemShell.html#count

answered Apr 23, 2018 by kurt_cobain
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