Get a few lines of HDFS data

Question

I am having a 2 GB data in my HDFS.

Is it possible to get that data randomly. Like we do in the Unix command line

cat iris2.cs         


        

Answer 1

hadoop fs -cat  /user/hive/warehouse/vamshi_customers/* |tail

I think the head part is working as per the answer posted by @Viacheslav Rodionov works fine but for the tail part the one that I posted is working good.