How to overwrite/reuse the existing output path for Hadoop jobs again and agian

Question

I want to overwrite/reuse the existing output directory when I run my Hadoop job daily. Actually the output directory will store summarized output of each day\'s job run results

Answer 1

you need to add the setting in your main class:

//Configuring the output path from the filesystem into the job
FileOutputFormat.setOutputPath(job, new Path(args[1]));
//auto_delete output dir
OutputPath.getFileSystem(conf).delete(OutputPath);