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Allen Wittenauer commented on HDFS-163: --------------------------------------- I suspect most of these have been fixed, but someone should verify. > HDFS shell commands not as expected > ----------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-163 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-163 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Robert Chansler > Assignee: Mahadev konar > Labels: newbie > > >Y! 1667824 > >shell commands > (a) -help > * the usage line is wrong as it suggests that multiple commands > (options) can be put into one command line. it is not clear which > options can be comb ine with which. > * it does not explain what a <path> is -- it is supposed to be a > URI -- what is the syntax? > * it does not explain how to specify the "file system URI" -- it > should suggest where to look to get this info. > (b) -du, -ls -- other commands > * breaks a file name contains a ":" -- even if this not a file > in the command, but on in a directory the command reached > (c) -get -getmerge does not work -- the arguments are taken, but the > output file is not created > (d) -setrep -- lies about having set the replication factor (for > local it should say it can do nothing) -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)