How to delete a file from Hadoop hdfs using java

Question

I know that I can delete a file using this command:

hdfs dfs -rm -r hdfs://path/to/file

I want to know how to do this in Java. Can someone tell me how to do this?

Answer 1

Try this:

FileSystem fs = FileSystem.get(getConf());
fs.delete(new Path("path/to/file"), true);