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.

9 Answers

Have you tried :

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

Or if you dont know the url, you can use

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

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

Run the command in the terminal

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

In hadoop1.0:

hadoop fs -rmr /PATH/ON/HDFS 

In hadoop2.0:

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

Use \ to escape , in path

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:// 

Exit Code:

Returns 0 on success and -1 on error.

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

$ hadoop fs -rmdir {directory_name} 

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.