The colon is a reserved character in a URI according to RFC 3986[1]. You should be able to percent encode those colons as %3A.
[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986 On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Mohit Anchlia <mohitanch...@gmail.com>wrote: > It looks like hadoop fs -put command doesn't like ":" in the file names. > Is there a way I can escape it? > > > hadoop fs -put /home/mapr/p/hjob.2012:12:26:11.0.dat > /user/apuser/temp-qdc/scratch/merge_jobs > > put: java.net.URISyntaxException: Relative path in absolute URI: > hjob.2012:12:26:11.0.dat >
