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Hudson commented on HADOOP-9267: -------------------------------- Integrated in Hadoop-trunk-Commit #3376 (See [https://builds.apache.org/job/Hadoop-trunk-Commit/3376/]) HADOOP-9267. hadoop -help, -h, --help should show usage instructions. Contributed by Andrew Wang. (Revision 1449161) Result = SUCCESS atm : http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/?root=Apache-SVN&view=rev&rev=1449161 Files : * /hadoop/common/trunk/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt * /hadoop/common/trunk/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop * /hadoop/common/trunk/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/bin/hdfs * /hadoop/common/trunk/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/yarn > hadoop -help, -h, --help should show usage instructions > ------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-9267 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9267 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 3.0.0 > Reporter: Andrew Wang > Assignee: Andrew Wang > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 2.0.4-beta > > Attachments: hadoop-9267-1.patch, hadoop-9267-2.patch > > > It's not friendly for new users when the command line scripts don't show > usage instructions when passed the defacto Unix usage flags. Imagine this > sequence of commands: > {noformat} > -> % hadoop --help > Error: No command named `--help' was found. Perhaps you meant `hadoop -help' > -> % hadoop -help > Error: No command named `-help' was found. Perhaps you meant `hadoop help' > -> % hadoop help > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: help > Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: help > at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202) > at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) > at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306) > at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247) > Could not find the main class: help. Program will exit. > {noformat} > Same applies for the `hdfs` script. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira