Jason Lowe created HADOOP-9193:
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             Summary: hadoop script can inadvertently expand wildcard arguments 
when delegating to hdfs script
                 Key: HADOOP-9193
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9193
             Project: Hadoop Common
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: scripts
    Affects Versions: 0.23.5, 2.0.2-alpha
            Reporter: Jason Lowe
            Priority: Minor


The hadoop front-end script will print a deprecation warning and defer to the 
hdfs front-end script for certain commands, like fsck, dfs.  If a wildcard 
appears as an argument then it can be inadvertently expanded by the shell to 
match a local filesystem path before being sent to the hdfs script, which can 
be very confusing to the end user.

For example, the following two commands usually perform very different things, 
even though they should be equivalent:

hadoop fs -ls /tmp/\*
hadoop dfs -ls /tmp/\*

The former lists everything in the default filesystem under /tmp, while the 
latter expands /tmp/\* into everything in the *local* filesystem under /tmp and 
passes those as arguments to try to list in the default filesystem.


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