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.

Answer 2

try

fs -put 'file name(1).zip' tmp/one

Answer 3

The most obvious workaround is to rename the file before storing it on HDFS, don't you think?

Answer 4

hadoop fs -get /landing/novdata/'2017-01-05 - abc def 5H.csv'

See the single quotes around the filename

Answer 5

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