Put file on HDFS with spaces in name

Question

I have a file named file name(1).zip (with the space and parentheses in it) and I want to put this file on the HDFS. But everytime I try to put it via had

Answer 1

Replace the spaces with %20.

The percent-encoding for space is %20

Use

hadoop fs -put first%20name.zip /tmp/one

instead of

hadoop fs -put first name.zip /tmp/one