interesting ... although escape character is still the forward slash and its proven to work with other special characters. Here's a link: Deleting directory with special character <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13529114/how-to-delete-a-directory-from-hadoop-cluster-which-is-having-comma-in-its-na>
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 6:22 PM, praveenesh kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >
