Useful Commands

Enterprise

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The plugin relies on the Hadoop filesystem shell for operational checks and manual validation.

List files inside a directory:

hdfs dfs -ls /user/hadoop/file1

Upload a file:

hdfs dfs -put /local-files/file1.txt /hdfs-path

Upload many files:

hdfs dfs -put /local-files /hdfs-path

Download many files:

hdfs dfs -get /hdfs-path /local-path

Snapshot commands:

hdfs dfs -createSnapshot /data snap1
hdfs dfs -deleteSnapshot /data snap1
hdfs dfs -renameSnapshot /data snap1 snap2
hdfs dfsadmin -allowSnapshot /data

For a complete set of commands and options, refer to the Hadoop documentation:

  • Hadoop FileSystem shell

  • Hadoop HDFS snapshot documentation

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