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

You can use the following to check file count in that particular directory

hadoop fs -count /directoryPath/* | print $2 | wc -l

count : counts the number of files, directories, and bytes under the path

print $2 : To print second column from the output

wc -l : To check the line count