You can instead use 'fs -cat' and the 'head' coreutil, as one example: hadoop fs -cat 100-byte-dfs-file | head -c 5 > 5-byte-local-file
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 3:38 AM, jamal sasha <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I was wondering in the following command: > > bin/hadoop dfs -copyToLocal hdfspath localpath > can we have specify to copy not full but like xMB's of file to local drive? > > Is something like this possible > Thanks > Jamal -- Harsh J
