How to remove the directory from HDFS

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Hi Team,

I have created one directory in HDFS. Now I want to remove the directory from the cluster. How can I do that?

Oct 13, 2020 in Big Data Hadoop by akhtar
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Hi@akhtar,

You can remove the directory using the Hadoop file system command. The below command will remove the directory from the Hadoop Cluster.

$ hadoop fs -rmdir <path>
answered Oct 13, 2020 by MD
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