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Andy Isaacson commented on HADOOP-8791:
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bq. we could add a new rmdir in FsShell
There's already {{hdfs dfs -rmdir}} in trunk. It behaves like Unix rmdir: it
only deletes empty directories, failing with "Directory is not empty" if there
are files or subdirectories.
> rm "Only deletes non empty directory and files."
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> Key: HADOOP-8791
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8791
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: documentation
> Affects Versions: 1.0.3, 3.0.0
> Reporter: Bertrand Dechoux
> Assignee: Jing Zhao
> Labels: documentation
> Attachments: HADOOP-8791-branch-1.patch, HADOOP-8791-trunk.patch
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> The documentation (1.0.3) is describing the opposite of what rm does.
> It should be "Only delete files and empty directories."
> With regards to file, the size of the file should not matter, should it?
> OR I am totally misunderstanding the semantic of this command and I am not
> the only one.
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