I do not know why I cannot move a file from one directory to another. I can view the content of the file but I cannot move the same file into another directory.
WORKS FINE:
hadoop fs -cat /user/hadoopusr/project-data.txt
DOES NOT WORK:
hadoop fs -put /user/hadoopusr/project-data.txt /user/hadoopusr/Projects/MarketAnalysis
I got a No such file or directory error message. What is wrong? Please help. Thank you!
As we can read from here about the -put command:
This command is used to copy files from the local file system to the
HDFS filesystem. This command is similar to –copyFromLocal command.
This command will not work if the file already exists unless the –f
flag is given to the command. This overwrites the destination if the
file already exists before the copy
Which makes it clear why it doesn't work and throws the No such file or directory message. It's because it can't find any file with the name project-data.txt on your current directory of your local filesystem.
You plan on moving a file between directories inside the HDFS, so instead of using the -put parameter for moving, we can simply use the -mv parameter as we would in our local filesystem!
Tested it out on my own HDFS as follows:
Create the source and destination directories in HDFS
hadoop fs -mkdir source_dir dest_dir
Create an empty (for the sake of the test) file under the source directory
hadoop fs -touch source_dir/test.txt
Move the empty file to the destination directory
hadoop fs -mv source_dir/test.txt dest_dir/test.txt
(Notice how the /user/username/part of the path for the file and the destination directory is not needed, because HDFS is by default on this directory where you are working. You also should note that you have to write the full path of the destination with name of the file included.)
You can see below with the HDFS browser that the empty text file has been moved to the destination directory:
Since I can use hdfs dfs -appendToFile <localFile> ... <hdfsFile> command to append local file to hdfs files as mentioned in HDFS Command Line Append.
Are there any similar commands that allow me to append files in the opposite direction? That is, append hdfs files to certain local file.
For example, some commands like
# append files to local
hdfs dfs -appendToLocal <hdfsFile> <localFile>
I found that hdfs dfs -getmerge solves my question.
hdfs dfs -getmerge -nl <hdfsFile1> <hdfsFile2> ... <hdfsFileN> <localFile>
I am trying to create a bashscript to upload files from the local edge node filesystem to hdfs. I was wondering a good way to add the timestamp in the file. Having some problems with getting timestamp to work.
#!/bin/bash
echo Running upload script to hdfs...
timestamp(){date +"%T"}
hdfs dfs -put /home/myname/folder1/* /user/myname/example_1_$(timestamp).txt
hdfs dfs -put /home/myname/folder2/* /user/myname/example_2_$(timestamp).txt
Using date +%T is not possible as the command result would contain : characters in it like 11:12:45, and creating filenames with : character is not possible in HDFS. See Hadoop-3275.
Try this command in the script,
hdfs dfs -put /home/myname/folder1/* /user/myname/example_1_`date +%H%M%S`.txt
This will create filename like /user/myname/example_1_111245.txt.
i'm looking for a shell script which should copy directory (with files under) from HDFS to local system.
I think it is pointless to write a whole script, when you only need to write one command into terminal.
With
hadoop fs -ls /myDir/path
you can verify name and path to directory, which you want to copy and write
hadoop fs -get /myDir/path
to get file into local. You also can specify destination directory by
hadoop fs -get /myDir/path /myLocal/destDir
It copies while directory (with subdirectories) to your working directory or to specified directory. You also can get file by file (dir by dir) with
hadoop fs -get /myDir/path/*
or specific dirs or files in one command
hadoop fs -get /myDir/path/dir1 /myDir/path/dir2 .
to your directory. I tried it on my Hadoop VM and it works fine.
How to copy file from HDFS to the local file system . There is no physical location of a file under the file , not even directory . how can i moved them to my local for further validations.i am tried through winscp .
bin/hadoop fs -get /hdfs/source/path /localfs/destination/path
bin/hadoop fs -copyToLocal /hdfs/source/path /localfs/destination/path
Point your web browser to HDFS WEBUI(namenode_machine:50070), browse to the file you intend to copy, scroll down the page and click on download the file.
In Hadoop 2.0,
hdfs dfs -copyToLocal <hdfs_input_file_path> <output_path>
where,
hdfs_input_file_path maybe obtained from http://<<name_node_ip>>:50070/explorer.html
output_path is the local path of the file, where the file is to be copied to.
you may also use get in place of copyToLocal.
In order to copy files from HDFS to the local file system the following command could be run:
hadoop dfs -copyToLocal <input> <output>
<input>: the HDFS directory path (e.g /mydata) that you want to copy
<output>: the destination directory path (e.g. ~/Documents)
Update: Hadoop is deprecated in Hadoop 3
use hdfs dfs -copyToLocal <input> <output>
you can accomplish in both these ways.
1.hadoop fs -get <HDFS file path> <Local system directory path>
2.hadoop fs -copyToLocal <HDFS file path> <Local system directory path>
Ex:
My files are located in /sourcedata/mydata.txt
I want to copy file to Local file system in this path /user/ravi/mydata
hadoop fs -get /sourcedata/mydata.txt /user/ravi/mydata/
If your source "file" is split up among multiple files (maybe as the result of map-reduce) that live in the same directory tree, you can copy that to a local file with:
hadoop fs -getmerge /hdfs/source/dir_root/ local/destination
This worked for me on my VM instance of Ubuntu.
hdfs dfs -copyToLocal [hadoop directory] [local directory]
1.- Remember the name you gave to the file and instead of using hdfs dfs -put. Use 'get' instead. See below.
$hdfs dfs -get /output-fileFolderName-In-hdfs
if you are using docker you have to do the following steps:
copy the file from hdfs to namenode (hadoop fs -get output/part-r-00000 /out_text).
"/out_text" will be stored on the namenode.
copy the file from namenode to local disk by (docker cp namenode:/out_text output.txt)
output.txt will be there on your current working directory
bin/hadoop fs -put /localfs/destination/path /hdfs/source/path