How to view contents of file in hadoop hdfs

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Hi Guys,

I have uploaded some files to the Hadoop Cluster. Now I want to read the content of the file. How can I do read the content?

Oct 5, 2020 in Big Data Hadoop by akhtar
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Hi@akhtar,

You can use the Hadoop filesystem command to read any file. It supports the cat command to read the content. You can use the below command.

$ hadoop fs -cat <file>
answered Oct 5, 2020 by MD
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