Error while copying the file from local to HDFS

Question

I am following a hdfs tutorial for learning different hdfs commands. So far I am able to create a directory in hdfs using the command:

hdfs dfs -mkdir -p sales/january

But, I am getting error while copying the data from local file system to HDFS. I am following all the steps mentioned in the tutorial. Here is the screenshots:

• Here, is my HDFS directories:

• Here, is the directory where I want to copy the file

Now, I am issuing the following command:

hdfs dfs -put january_sales_2017.csv sales/january/january_sale_2017.csv

The error that I am getting is:

put: `sales/january/january_sale_2017.csv': No such file or directory: `hdfs://localhost:8020/sales/january/january_sale_2017.csv`

Please, let me know what I am doing wrong or is there any problem with the hadoop setup. Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Well, the reason you are getting such prompt is because you trying to copy the file into a directory that does not exist. In your case, you are trying to push the files january_sales_2017.csv into sales/january/january_sales_2017.csv directory path. Now, you have not created any sub-dir by the name of january_sales_2017.csv inside sales directory and therefore, giving you the error. So, on case you want to copy the files inside sales/january directory, here is the corrected way to do it:

hdfs dfs -put january_sales_2017.csv /sales/january