Can u try one of the following hdfs dfs -put localfile /path/to/dir/in/hdfs
hdfs dfs -copyFromLocal localfile /path/to/dir/in/hdfs Thanks Sanjay. Sent from my iPhone On May 25, 2013, at 5:07 AM, "Mohammad Mustaqeem" <3m.mustaq...@gmail.com<mailto:3m.mustaq...@gmail.com>> wrote: I am using pseudo-distributed Hadoop-2.0.3-alpha. I want to upload a file named 'abc' from my local filesystem on HDFS at location "/waseem". When I run this command on terminal - curl --negotiate -u : -i -X PUT -T /home/mustaqeem/abc -L 'http://127.0.0.1:50070/webhdfs/v1/waseem?op=CREATE&user.name=mustaqeem' First it hangs for some time and give following error - HTTP/1.1 100 Continue HTTP/1.1 307 TEMPORARY_REDIRECT Cache-Control: no-cache Expires: Thu, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:00 GMT Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 12:01:14 GMT Pragma: no-cache Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 12:01:14 GMT Pragma: no-cache Content-Type: application/octet-stream Set-Cookie: hadoop.auth="u=mustaqeem&p=mustaqeem&t=simple&e=1369519274604&s=HyX9z80lRU+9RdKeN5USW5Q/AZY=";Path=/ Location: http://mustaqeem:50075/webhdfs/v1/waseem?op=CREATE&user.name=mustaqeem&namenoderpcaddress=localhost:8020&overwrite=false Content-Length: 0 Server: Jetty(6.1.26) curl: (7) couldn't connect to host Whats the problem? -- With regards --- Mohammad Mustaqeem, M.Tech (CSE) MNNIT Allahabad CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE ====================== This email message and any attachments are for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message along with any attachments, from your computer system. If you are the intended recipient, please be advised that the content of this message is subject to access, review and disclosure by the sender's Email System Administrator.