However, note that DFSShell currently has some issues with percent-encoded characters.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-4329 -andy On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote: > The colon is a reserved character in a URI according to RFC 3986[1]. > > You should be able to percent encode those colons as %3A. > > [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986 > > > On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Mohit Anchlia <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> It looks like hadoop fs -put command doesn't like ":" in the file names. >> Is there a way I can escape it? >> >> >> hadoop fs -put /home/mapr/p/hjob.2012:12:26:11.0.dat >> /user/apuser/temp-qdc/scratch/merge_jobs >> >> put: java.net.URISyntaxException: Relative path in absolute URI: >> hjob.2012:12:26:11.0.dat > >
