How to copy file from HDFS to the local file system - hadoop

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

Related

Bash unable to create directory

In docker, I want to copy a file README.md from an existing directory /opt/ibm/labfiles to a new one /input/tmp. I try this
hdfs dfs -put /opt/ibm/labfiles/README.md input/tmp
to no effect, because there seems to be no /input folder in the root. So I try to create it:
hdfs dfs -mkdir /input
mkdir:'/input': File exists
However, when I ls, there is no input file or directory
How can I create a folder and copy the file? Thank you!!
Please try hdfs dfs -ls / if you want to see there is an input folder that exists in HDFS at the root.
You cannot cd into an HDFS directory
It's also worth mentioning that the leading slash is important. In other words,
This will try to put the file in HDFS at /user/<name>/input/tmp
hdfs dfs -put /opt/ibm/labfiles/README.md input/tmp
While this puts the file at the root of HDFS
hdfs dfs -put /opt/ibm/labfiles/README.md /input/tmp

Shell Script to copy directories from hdfs to local

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.

No such file or directory in copying file to hadoop

i'm beginner in hadoop, when i use
Hadoop fs -ls /
And
Hadoop fs - mkdir /pathname
Every thing is ok, but i want to use my csv file in hadoop, my file is in c drive, i used -put and wget and copyfromlocal commands like these:
Hadoop fs -put c:/ path / myhadoopdir
Hadoop fs copyFromLoacl c:/...
Wget ftp://c:/...
But in two of above it errors in no such file or directory /myfilepathinc:
And for the third
Unable to resolve host address"c"
Thanks for your help
Looking at your command, it seems that there could be couple of reasons for this issue.
Hadoop fs -put c:/ path / myhadoopdir
Hadoop fs copyFromLoacl c:/...
Use hadoop fs -copyFromLocal correctly.
Check your local file permission. You have to give full access to that file.
You have to give your absolute path location both in local and in hdfs.
Hope it will work for you.
salmanbw's answer is exact. To be more clear.
Suppose your file is "c:\testfile.txt", use the command below.
And also make sure you have write permission to your directory in HDFS.
hadoop fs -copyFromLocal c:\testfile.txt /HDFSdir/testfile.txt

hadoop fs -get not working in ubuntu

I have created single node hadoop cluster in Ubuntu .
I was trying to copy file from hdfs to local fs but when i issued command
hduser#ubuntu:/usr/local/hadoop/bin$ hadoop fs -get /user/hduser/Employee /home/output/
I got a message
get: No such file or directory
How to fix this?
The general format for hadoop shell command get shown below,
hadoop fs -get <HDFS File> <local File Directory>
You have used as, hduser#ubuntu:/usr/local/hadoop/bin$ hadoop fs -get /user/hduser/Employee /home/output/ in here /user/hduser/Employee is an directory not a file.
you should do as,
hduser#ubuntu:/usr/local/hadoop/bin$ hadoop fs -get /user/hduser/Employee[/FILENAME] /home/output/
Else If you want to copy a directory(i.e folder) you can use dfs -copyToLocal,
hduser#ubuntu:/usr/local/hadoop/bin$ hadoop dfs -copyToLocal /user/hduser/Employee /home/output/
You can find Hadoop Shell Commands here.
You need to make sure that /user/hduser is a directory and not a file.I once had this problem and I tried hadoop fs -ls which showed
-rwx r-x -r-x
A directory would be drwx r-x r-x .
If this is the problem you need to remove it using -rmr /user/hduser and make it again with -mkdir.
Other options,try -copyToLocal or try downloading the file from HDFS webportal i.e. namenode_IP:50070

hadoop dfs -ls complains

Can anyone let me know what seems to be wrong here ? hadoop dfs command seems to be OK but any following options are not recognized.
[hadoop-0.20]$bin/hadoop dfs -ls ~/wordcount/input/
ls: Cannot access /home/cloudera/wordcount/input/ : No such file or directory
hadoop fs -ls /some/path/here - will list a HDFS location, not your local linux location
try first this command
hadoop fs -ls /
then investigate step by step other folders.
if you want to copy some files from local directory to users directory on HDFS location, then just use this:
hadoop fs -mkdir /users
hadoop fs -put /some/local/file /users
for more hdfs commands see this: http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r0.20.0/hdfs_shell.html
FS relates to a generic file system which can point to any file systems like local, HDFS, s3 etc But dfs is very specific to HDFS. So when we use FS it can perform operation with from/to local or hadoop distributed file system to destination. But specifying DFS operation relates to HDFS.

Resources