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Reputation: 992

How to Delete a directory from Hadoop cluster which is having comma(,) in its name?

I have uploaded a Directory to hadoop cluster that is having "," in its name like "MyDir, Name" when I am trying to delete this Directory by using rmr hadoop shell command as following

hadoop dfs -rmr hdfs://host:port/Navi/MyDir, Name

I'm getting the following messages rmr: cannot remove hdfs://host:port/Navi/MyDir,: No such file or directory. rmr: cannot remove Name: No such file or directory.

However I have successfully deleted other Directories from the same location, using the same command i.e. 

hadoop dfs -rmr hdfs://host:port/dir_path

any solutions to delete such kind of Directories.

Upvotes: 81

Views: 350459

Answers (9)

Arefe
Arefe

Reputation: 12397

Run the command in the terminal

$hadoop fs -rm -r /path/to/directory

Upvotes: 9

Moshih Hsü
Moshih Hsü

Reputation: 11

Or you can: hadoop fs -rm -r PATH

Hint: if you enter: hadoop fs -rmr PATH you would mostly get:Please use 'rm -r' instead.

Upvotes: 1

gega
gega

Reputation: 1004

Have you tried :

hadoop dfs -rmr hdfs://host:port/Navi/MyDir\,\ Name?

Upvotes: 98

Ani Menon
Ani Menon

Reputation: 28199

In hadoop1.0:

hadoop fs -rmr /PATH/ON/HDFS

In hadoop2.0:

hdfs dfs -rm -R /PATH/ON/HDFS

Use \ to escape , in path

Upvotes: 5

koders
koders

Reputation: 5794

hdfs dfs -rm -r /path/to/directory

Upvotes: 25

user2531037
user2531037

Reputation: 126

Here you can find all hadoop shell commands:

deleting: rmr Usage: hadoop fs -rmr URI [URI …]

Recursive version of delete.

Example:

hadoop fs -rmr /user/hadoop/dir
hadoop fs -rmr hdfs://nn.example.com/user/hadoop/dir

Exit Code:

Returns 0 on success and -1 on error.

Upvotes: 4

Akarsh
Akarsh

Reputation: 389

Try hadoop dfs -rm -r hdfs://host:port/Navi/MyDir\,\ Name now

Upvotes: 2

Jeyhun Karimov
Jeyhun Karimov

Reputation: 1295

Or if you dont know the url, you can use

hadoop fs -rm -r -f /user/the/path/to/your/dir

Upvotes: 79

Candice
Candice

Reputation: 181

$ hadoop fs -rmdir {directory_name}

Upvotes: 1

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