what's the exact command you are using(with escape and quotes)? And what's the output after execution?
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 9:33 PM, hadoop hive <[email protected]> wrote: > Move it to some tmp directory and delete parent directory. > On Aug 20, 2014 4:23 PM, "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 >> >
