Write the command to copy a file from linux to hdfs?

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Write the command to copy a file from linux to hdfs?..

Answer / Neeraj Kumar Tyagi

The command to copy a file from Linux to HDFS is hadoop fs -put <source_local_file> <destination_hdfs_directory>

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