Hi Manoj You can get the file in a readable format using hadoop fs -text <fileName>
Provided you have lzo codec within the property 'io.compression.codecs' in core-site.xml A 'hadoop fs -ls' command would itself display the file size. Regards Bejoy KS Sent from handheld, please excuse typos. -----Original Message----- From: Manoj Babu <manoj...@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 13:10:55 To: <user@hadoop.apache.org> Reply-To: user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: extracting lzo compressed files Hi, Is there any option to extract the lzo compressed file in HDFS from command line and any option to find the original size of the compressed file. Thanks in Advance! Cheers! Manoj.