Issue in hdfs dfs command

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I am not able to use pwd or cd command in hdfs dfs. Is there any specific way to move to a certain directory in hdfs or to get the present working directory?

Jan 7, 2019 in Big Data Hadoop by slayer
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Hadoop has a special file system called 'hdfs' where there is no concept of current or present working directory. And therefore, the hdfs does not support 'cd' command (in short, it is not required). To navigate through the directories in hdfs, the complete path should be provided. This can be done with 'hdfs dfs -ls <path>' command.

Suppose you have a directory named test2 under a directory named test. Now, to view the contents of the test2 directory in hdfs you can execute the below command,

hdfs dfs -ls test/test2

Now, if you have a .txt file in the directory test2 and you want to display the .txt file, then execute the below command,

hdfs dfs -cat test/test2/text_file_name.txt

answered Jan 7, 2019 by Omkar
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