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Trupti Dhavle reopened HADOOP-8517: ----------------------------------- --config is a switch given to export the HADOOP_CONF_DIR path in the command line. When I run this on non-windows environment, the command works- /Users/trupti/WORK/Software/Hadoop/hadoop-1.0.3/bin/hadoop --config /Users/trupti/WORK/Software/Hadoop/hadoop-1.0.3/conf dfs -ls / Found 3 items drwxr-xr-x - trupti supergroup 0 2012-06-12 14:09 /hdfsRegressionData drwxr-xr-x - trupti supergroup 0 2012-06-12 11:31 /tmp drwxr-xr-x - trupti supergroup 0 2012-06-20 10:12 /user /Users/trupti/WORK/Software/Hadoop/hadoop-1.0.3/bin/hadoop Usage: hadoop [--config confdir] COMMAND where COMMAND is one of: namenode -format format the DFS filesystem ... ... But the same switch is unavailable for Windows Hadoop. > --config option does not work with Hadoop installation on Windows > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-8517 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8517 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Trupti Dhavle > > I ran following command > hadoop --config c:\<directory>\hadoop\conf fs -ls / > I get following error for --config option > Unrecognized option: --config > Could not create the Java virtual machine. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira