Make sure namenode is not in safe mode.
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 > -- Regards, Varun Kumar.P