Command used - 1. hadoop fs -rmr /data/folder\* 2. hadoop fs -rmr 'data/folder\*' 3. hadoop fs -rmr "/data/folder\*"
None of them gave any output. Hadoop version - 1.0.2 On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 7:26 PM, Ritesh Kumar Singh < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>> >> >
