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Doug Cutting commented on HADOOP-956:
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We could add a 'file' command, like the unix 'file' program, that uses various
heuristics to print file type and meta information for different kinds of
Hadoop files?
> DFSShell/Wen UI should return the metadata of a file
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> Key: HADOOP-956
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-956
> Project: Hadoop
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Runping Qi
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> There should be a utility to check whether a file is a sequence file or not.
> If so, return the metadata associated with the file. This feature should be
> added to DFSShell and Web UI.
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