No, I have tried all usual things like single quotes, double quotes, escape character.. but it is not working. I wonder what is escape char with Hadoop FS utility.
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Ritesh Kumar Singh < riteshoneinamill...@gmail.com> wrote: > try putting the name in quotes > > > On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 4:35 PM, praveenesh kumar <praveen...@gmail.com> > 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 <dileep...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Just Rename the folder. >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 6:53 AM, praveenesh kumar <praveen...@gmail.com> >>> 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 >>>> >>> >>> >> >
