Thanks a lot Harish. This is what I am looking for. On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Harsh J <ha...@cloudera.com> wrote:
> Seems to me like you are looking for globbing your path results out. > This is possible, just pass your pattern to this API call > (FileSystem.globStatus instead of FileSystem.listStatus) and then > iterate over the returned listing: > > http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/current/api/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FileSystem.html#globStatus(org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path) > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Thamizhannal Paramasivam > <thamizhanna...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Can n't we use special character to get paths in HDFS using Hadoop API. > > > > E.g. Path path = new Path("/data/input/20120321*"); > > I have files /data/input/20120321000000/a.txt , > > /data/input/20120321010000/b.txt and /data/input/20120321020000/c.txt > under > > "/data/input/" folder. > > > > I wanted to all the files correponding to a single day. E.g. File: > > /data/input date: 20120321 > > > > How can I do that using Hadoop API. > > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > Thamizh > > > > -- > Harsh J >
