On 1.x, -put does mkdir the parent directories if they are non existent (akin to mkdir -p).
On 2.x, -put does not do this - we need the dir to pre-exist or mkdir'd before -put. ➜ ~ hadoop fs -put foo a/bc/dfe/fsdf.t put: `a/bc/dfe/fsdf.t': No such file or directory On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:28 PM, Jean-Marc Spaggiari < jean-m...@spaggiari.org> wrote: > Yes it does, you can just try ;) > > hadoop@node3:~/hadoop-1.0.3$ bin/hadoop fs -ls /user/ > Found 1 items > drwxr-xr-x - hbase supergroup 0 2013-01-03 09:54 /user/hbase > > hadoop@node3:~/hadoop-1.0.3$ bin/hadoop fs -put CHANGES.txt > /user/test/CHANGES.txt > > hadoop@node3:~/hadoop-1.0.3$ bin/hadoop fs -ls /user/ > Found 2 items > drwxr-xr-x - hbase supergroup 0 2013-01-03 09:54 /user/hbase > drwxr-xr-x - hadoop supergroup 0 2013-01-16 11:56 /user/test > > hadoop@node3:~/hadoop-1.0.3$ bin/hadoop fs -ls /user/test/ > Found 1 items > -rw-r--r-- 3 hadoop supergroup 446615 2013-01-16 11:56 > /user/test/CHANGES.txt > > hadoop@node3:~/hadoop-1.0.3$ bin/hadoop fs -put CHANGES.txt > /user/test2/subdir/anotherone/CHANGES.txt > > hadoop@node3:~/hadoop-1.0.3$ bin/hadoop fs -ls > /user/test2/subdir/anotherone/ > Found 1 items > -rw-r--r-- 3 hadoop supergroup 446615 2013-01-16 11:58 > /user/test2/subdir/anotherone/CHANGES.txt > > > 2013/1/16, John Meza <j_meza...@hotmail.com>: > > Does "hadoop fs -put mmddyyyy.tsv t1/2012/01/01/mmddyyyy.tsv" create the > > necassary subdirectories in hdfs?thanksJohn > -- Harsh J
