One way to get all Unix commands to work as is is to mount hdfs as a normal unix filesystem with either fuse-dfs (in contrib) or hdfs-fuse (on google code).
Pete On 8/6/08 5:08 PM, "Mori Bellamy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hey all, > often i find it would be convenient for me to run conventional unix > commands on hdfs, such as using the following to delete the contents > of my HDFS > hadoop dfs -rm * > > or moving files from one folder to another: > hadoop dfs -mv /path/one/* path/two/ > > does anyone know of a way to do this?