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Keegan Witt commented on HADOOP-9382:
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Since Unix disallows replacing a file with a directory, and calling
{{Filesystem.rename()}} directly fails under this circumstance, I'd expect the
shell invocation to fail as well.
> Add dfs mv overwrite option
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> Key: HADOOP-9382
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9382
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Keegan Witt
> Assignee: Suresh Srinivas
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: BB2015-05-TBR
> Attachments: HADOOP-9382.1.patch, HADOOP-9382.2.patch,
> HADOOP-9382.patch
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> Add a -f option to allow overwriting existing destinations in dfs mv command.
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