Not working for me, strange :(
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Ritesh Kumar Singh < riteshoneinamill...@gmail.com> wrote: > use this: > > hadoop fs -rmr "/path-to-folder/"folder\*" > > just tried it out :) > > > On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Ritesh Kumar Singh < > riteshoneinamill...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 <praveen...@gmail.com> >> 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 < >>> 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 >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >
