HDFS: How do you list files recursively?

Question

How do you, through Java, list all files (recursively) under a certain path in HDFS. I went through the API and noticed FileSystem.listFiles(Path,boolean) but it looks like that

Answer 1

Use -R followed by ls command to list files/directorires recursively.

hadoop fs -ls -R Path/Of/File

Possible attributes for ls command are

-d : Directories are listed as plain files.

-h "Formats the sizes of files in a human-readable fashion rather than a number of bytes.

-R "Recursively list the contents of directories.