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Chris Douglas commented on HADOOP-1858:
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bin/hadoop dfs -stat <path> can check for a particular directory... but I'm not 
sure I follow your example. 

I think we can close this.

>  ".." for ls does not check for existence of its parent directory.
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>                 Key: HADOOP-1858
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1858
>             Project: Hadoop
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: dfs
>            Reporter: Raghu Angadi
>            Priority: Minor
>
> '{{bin/hadoop -ls /user/nonexistent/..}}' lists /user even if 
> /user/nonexistent  directory does not exist.

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