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Fs Shell is a client command line tool to manage HDFS.
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Syntax
hadoop fs command uri
# hdfs dfs is a synonym
hdfs dfs command uri
where:
- hadoop is the hadoop client
- hdfs is HDFS - hdfs command line
- command is a file system command (ie ls, cat, …)
- uri is HDFS - URI
Management
Copy
For copy, you can also use HDFS - DistCp (distributed inter/intra-cluster copy)