Destination ending with \ should be treated as a dir ----------------------------------------------------
Key: HDFS-689 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-689 Project: Hadoop HDFS Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 0.20.1 Reporter: Rajiv Chittajallu When the destination for fs -mv and fs -cp ends with a trailing '/' the it should be treated as a directory. The command should fail if the destination directory doesn't exist. $ cp motd t/ cp: cannot create regular file `t/': Is a directory $ mv motd t/ mv: cannot move `motd' to `t/': Not a directory vs $ hadoop dfs -cp motd c/ $ hadoop dfs -ls c Found 1 items -rw------- 3 rajive users 206 2009-10-09 20:59 /user/rajive/c $ hadoop dfs -mv motd t/ $ hadoop dfs -ls t Found 1 items -rw------- 3 rajive users 206 2009-10-09 20:47 /user/rajive/t $ $ hadoop dfs -mkdir a $ hadoop dfs -mv motd2 a/ $ hadoop dfs -ls a Found 1 items -rw------- 3 rajive users 206 2009-10-09 20:47 /user/rajive/a/motd2 $ -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.