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Jeff Hammerbacher commented on HADOOP-6541: ------------------------------------------- bq. [Hmm. I wonder how much duplication there is with grunt.] We all asked this question. Many users only have Common + HDFS + MR, and it was a Hackathon, and the feature was deemed useful enough by all involved to move forward. It would be nice to have a general shell in Common, or as a separate Apache project; in fact, Carl Steinbach proposed such a thing over at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-987. > An Interactive Hadoop FS shell > ------------------------------ > > Key: HADOOP-6541 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6541 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: Aaron Kimball > Assignee: Aaron Kimball > Attachments: HADOOP-6541.2.patch, HADOOP-6541.3.patch, > HADOOP-6541.4.patch, HADOOP-6541.patch > > > A shell that allows the user to execute multiple filesystem operations in a > single JVM instance at a prompt. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.