How to overwrite the existing files using hadoop fs -copyToLocal command

Question

Is there any way we can overwrite existing files, while coping from HDFS using:

hadoop fs -copyToLocal  
         


        

Answer 1

You can first delete, then write.

hadoop fs -rmr removes everything under given path in hdfs including the path itself

rm -rf removes in local file system.

Make sure that there is no other file in the directory.