File count in an HDFS directory

Question

In Java code, I want to connect to a directory in HDFS, learn the number of files in that directory, get their names and want to read them. I can already read the files but I co

Answer 1

count

Usage: hadoop fs -count [-q] 

Count the number of directories, files and bytes under the paths that match the specified file pattern. The output columns are: DIR_COUNT, FILE_COUNT, CONTENT_SIZE FILE_NAME.

The output columns with -q are: QUOTA, REMAINING_QUATA, SPACE_QUOTA, REMAINING_SPACE_QUOTA, DIR_COUNT, FILE_COUNT, CONTENT_SIZE, FILE_NAME.

Example:

hadoop fs -count hdfs://nn1.example.com/file1 hdfs://nn2.example.com/file2
hadoop fs -count -q hdfs://nn1.example.com/file1

Exit Code:

Returns 0 on success and -1 on error.

You can just use the FileSystem and iterate over the files inside the path. Here is some example code

int count = 0;
FileSystem fs = FileSystem.get(getConf());
boolean recursive = false;
RemoteIterator ri = fs.listFiles(new Path("hdfs://my/path"), recursive);
while (ri.hasNext()){
    count++;
    ri.next();
}