Shell commands on the Hadoop file system are organized similarly to those in Unix/Linux systems. It’s simple to use Hadoop shell commands if you’re familiar with the Unix shell. Earlier posts described commands that interface with HDFS and other Hadoop-supported file systems that are useful in day-to-day tasks. We’ll see about how to read and obtain sample from a file in HDFS console in this post.
Syntax / Examples:
hadoop fs -cat /user/cloudera/EmpDir/emp.txt
The above command will help in displaying the contents of the data from a file.
hadoop fs -tail /user/cloudera/EmpDir/emp.txt
If the file is huge, this is recommended command to see the last few entries of the file.
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