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Work on HADOOP-431 started by Sameer Paranjpye. > default behaviour of dfsShell -rm should resemble 'rm -i', not 'rm -rf' > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-431 > URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-431 > Project: Hadoop > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: dfs > Affects Versions: 0.5.0 > Reporter: Yoram Arnon > Assigned To: Sameer Paranjpye > > when using hadoop dfs -rm <path> the behaviour is like that of rm -rf. > That's very dangerous. > A better behaviour would require a confirmation and allow removal of files > only by default. Optional flags would allow recursive and forced deleted. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
