hdfs dfs -put with overwrite?

Question

I am using

hdfs dfs -put myfile mypath

and for some files I get

put: \'myfile\': File Exists

• does

Answer 1

put: 'myfile': File Exists

Means,the file named "myfile" already exists in hdfs. You cannot have multiple files of the same name in hdfs

You can overwrite it using hadoop fs -put -f /path_to_local /path_to_hdfs