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Allen Wittenauer commented on HADOOP-7164:
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Would someone mind confirming that the error messages actually go to stderr?
They cannot go to stdout.
> rmr command is not displaying any error message when a path contains wildcard
> characters and does not exist.
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> Key: HADOOP-7164
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-7164
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: fs
> Affects Versions: 0.20.1, 0.20.2
> Reporter: Uma Maheswara Rao G
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: HDFS-1609-src.patch, HDFS-1609-test.patch,
> HDFS-1609.patch
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> When we give invalid directory path then it will show error message on the
> console. But if we provide the wildcard expression in invalid directory path
> then it will not show any error message even there is no pattern match for
> that path.
> linux-9j5v:/home/hadoop-hdfs-0.22.0-SNAPSHOT/bin # ./hdfs dfs -rmr /test/test
> rmr: cannot remove /test/test: No such file or directory.
> *linux-9j5v:/home/hadoop-hdfs-0.22.0-SNAPSHOT/bin # ./hdfs dfs -rmr /test* *
> *linux-9j5v:/home/hadoop-hdfs-0.22.0-SNAPSHOT/bin #*
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