try putting the name in quotes
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 4:35 PM, praveenesh kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > With renaming - you would use the mv command "hadoop fs -mv /data/folder* > /data/new_folder". Won't it move all the sub_dirs along with that ? > > > On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 12:00 PM, dileep kumar <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Just Rename the folder. >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 6:53 AM, praveenesh kumar <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi team >>> >>> I am in weird situation where I have following HDFS sample folders >>> >>> /data/folder/ >>> /data/folder* >>> /data/folder_day >>> /data/folder_day/monday >>> /data/folder/1 >>> /data/folder/2 >>> >>> I want to delete /data/folder* without deleting its sub_folders. If I do >>> hadoop fs -rmr /data/folder* it will delete everything which I want to >>> avoid. I tried with escape character \ but HDFS FS shell is not taking it. >>> Any hints/tricks ? >>> >>> >>> Regards >>> Praveenesh >>> >> >> >
