How to check the size of a file in Hadoop HDFS

Question

I want to check the size of my file which is in hdfs. What command can I use for this?

Answer 1

You can use the  hadoop fs -ls command to check the size. The size will be displayed in bytes.

Example:

hadoop fs -ls sample

Found 1 items
-rw-r--r--   1 hduser supergroup      57342 2012-07-19 20:57 /user/hduser/sample/abc

In this case, the file size is 57342 bytes