tail will work as well.. ??? but i want to extract just (say) n lines out of this file?
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Kim Chew <[email protected]> wrote: > hadoop fs -copyToLocal > or > hadoop fs -get > > It copies the whole file and won't be able just to copy part of the file, > what is interesting is there is a "tail" command but no "head". > > Kim > > > On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Chengi Liu <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Ok, >> >> A very stupid question... >> >> I have a large file in >> >> /user/input/foo.txt >> >> I want to copy first 100 lines from this location to local filesystem... >> >> And the data is very sensitive so i am bit hesistant to experiment. >> >> What is the right way to copy sample data from hdfs to local fs. >> >> >
