Mohit, On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 12:58 AM, Mohit Anchlia <mohitanch...@gmail.com> wrote: > If I have to overwrite a file I generally use > > hadoop dfs -rm <file> > hadoop dfs -copyFromLocal or -put <file> > > Is there a command to overwrite/replace the file instead of doing rm first? >
There's no command available right now to do this (best to write a wrapper script acting as a command, or a custom shell utility program?) That said, https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1608 covers the addition of -f/-overwrite feature and it may be available in future releases (possibly 0.23+). -- Harsh J
