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

HDFS is totally fine with spaces in the file or directory names.

It is the hdfs that does not support putting a file from local disk with spaces in its file name. But there is a trick to achieve this ( reference ):

cat file\ name\(1\).zip | hadoop fs -put - "/tmp/one/file name(1).zip"

Hope this helps those that need this.