With renaming - you would use the mv command "hadoop fs -mv /data/folder* /data/new_folder". Won't it move all the sub_dirs along with that ?
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 12:00 PM, dileep kumar <dileep...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just Rename the folder. > > > On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 6:53 AM, praveenesh kumar <praveen...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi team >> >> I am in weird situation where I have following HDFS sample folders >> >> /data/folder/ >> /data/folder* >> /data/folder_day >> /data/folder_day/monday >> /data/folder/1 >> /data/folder/2 >> >> I want to delete /data/folder* without deleting its sub_folders. If I do >> hadoop fs -rmr /data/folder* it will delete everything which I want to >> avoid. I tried with escape character \ but HDFS FS shell is not taking it. >> Any hints/tricks ? >> >> >> Regards >> Praveenesh >> > >
