They do work on directories as well... Arvind
________________________________ From: Kris Jirapinyo <kris.jirapi...@biz360.com> To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org Sent: Friday, September 4, 2009 11:41:22 PM Subject: Re: Copying directories out of HDFS I thought -get and -copyToLocal don't work on directories, only on single files. On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Jeff Zhang <zjf...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Arvind, > > You miss the fs > > The command should be: > > bin/hadoop fs -get /path/to/dfs/dir /path/to/local/dir > or > bin/hadoop fs -copyToLocal /path/to/dfs/dir /path/to/local/dir > > The is the link of shell command for your reference. > http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r0.20.0/hdfs_shell.html > > > > On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Arvind Sharma <arvind...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > You mean programmatically or command line ? > > > > Command line : > > > > bin/hadoop -get /path/to/dfs/dir /path/to/local/dir > > > > Arvind > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: Kris Jirapinyo <kjirapi...@biz360.com> > > To: common-user <common-user@hadoop.apache.org> > > Sent: Friday, September 4, 2009 5:15:00 PM > > Subject: Copying directories out of HDFS > > > > Hi all, > > What is the best way to copy directories from HDFS to local disk in > > 0.19.1? > > > > Thanks, > > Kris. > > > > > > > > > > >
