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Nigel Daley updated HADOOP-3173:
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Priority: Blocker (was: Major)
Fix Version/s: 0.17.0
> inconsistent globbing support for dfs commands
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> Key: HADOOP-3173
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3173
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: dfs
> Environment: Hadoop 0.16.1
> Reporter: Rajiv Chittajallu
> Priority: Blocker
> Fix For: 0.17.0
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> hadoop dfs -mkdir /user/*/bar creates a directory "/user/*/bar" and you cant
> deleted /user/* as -rmr expands the glob
> $ hadoop dfs -mkdir /user/rajive/a/*/foo
> $ hadoop dfs -ls /user/rajive/a
> Found 4 items
> /user/rajive/a/* <dir> 2008-04-04 16:09 rwx------
> rajive users
> /user/rajive/a/b <dir> 2008-04-04 16:08 rwx------
> rajive users
> /user/rajive/a/c <dir> 2008-04-04 16:08 rwx------
> rajive users
> /user/rajive/a/d <dir> 2008-04-04 16:08 rwx------
> rajive users
> $ hadoop dfs -ls /user/rajive/a/*
> /user/rajive/a/*/foo <dir> 2008-04-04 16:09 rwx------
> rajive users
> $ hadoop dfs -rmr /user/rajive/a/*
> Moved to trash: hdfs://namenode-1:8020/user/rajive/a/*
> Moved to trash: hdfs://namenode-1:8020/user/rajive/a/b
> Moved to trash: hdfs://namenode-1:8020/user/rajive/a/c
> Moved to trash: hdfs://namenode-1:8020/user/rajive/a/d
> I am not able to escape '*' from being expanded.
> $ hadoop dfs -rmr '/user/rajive/a/*'
> Moved to trash: hdfs://namenode-1:8020/user/rajive/a/*
> Moved to trash: hdfs://namenode-1:8020/user/rajive/a/b
> Moved to trash: hdfs://namenode-1:8020/user/rajive/a/c
> Moved to trash: hdfs://namenode-1:8020/user/rajive/a/d
> $ hadoop dfs -rmr '/user/rajive/a/\*'
> Moved to trash: hdfs://namenode-1:8020/user/rajive/a/*
> Moved to trash: hdfs://namenode-1:8020/user/rajive/a/b
> Moved to trash: hdfs://namenode-1:8020/user/rajive/a/c
> Moved to trash: hdfs://namenode-1:8020/user/rajive/a/d
> $ hadoop dfs -rmr /user/rajive/a/\*
> Moved to trash: hdfs://namenode-1:8020/user/rajive/a/*
> Moved to trash: hdfs://namenode-1:8020/user/rajive/a/b
> Moved to trash: hdfs://namenode-1:8020/user/rajive/a/c
> Moved to trash: hdfs://namenode-1:8020/user/rajive/a/d
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