How to check the size of a file in Hadoop HDFS

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I want to check the size of my file which is in hdfs. What command can I use for this?
Nov 21, 2018 in Big Data Hadoop by digger
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You can use the  hadoop fs -ls command to check the size. The size will be displayed in bytes.

Example:

hadoop fs -ls sample
Found 1 items
-rw-r--r--   1 hduser supergroup      57342 2012-07-19 20:57 /user/hduser/sample/abc

In this case, the file size is 57342 bytes


answered Nov 21, 2018 by Omkar
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