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Philip Zeyliger commented on HADOOP-4412:
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If you're willing to deal with XML, http://namenode/listPaths?recursive=yes
will give you an XML file with all the files on that namenode. You could
probably convert your find query into XQuery.
> hadoop dfs -find feature
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>
> Key: HADOOP-4412
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4412
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: dfs
> Reporter: Marco Nicosia
>
> Both sysadmins and users make frequent use of the unix 'find' command, but
> Hadoop has no correlate. Without this, users are writing scripts which make
> heavy use of hadoop dfs -lsr, and implementing find one-offs. I think hdfs
> -lsr is somewhat taxing on the NameNode, and a really slow experience on the
> client side. Possibly an in-NameNode find operation would be only a bit more
> taxing on the NameNode, but significantly faster from the client's point of
> view?
> The minimum set of options I can think of which would make a Hadoop find
> command generally useful is (in priority order):
> * -type (file or directory, for now)
> * -atime/-ctime-mtime (... and -creationtime?) (both + and - arguments)
> * -print0 (for piping to xargs -0)
> * -depth
> * -owner/-group (and -nouser/-nogroup)
> * -name (allowing for shell pattern, or even regex?)
> * -perm
> * -size
> One possible special case, but could possibly be really cool if it ran from
> within the NameNode:
> * -delete
> The "hadoop dfs -lsr | hadoop dfs -rm" cycle is really, really slow.
> Lower priority, some people do use operators, mostly to execute -or searches
> such as:
> * find / \(-nouser -or -nogroup\)
> Finally, I thought I'd include a link to the [Posix spec for
> find|http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/find.html]
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