rm

Sergey Ostapov

Deletes files specified as args.

If trash is enabled, moves the deleted file to the .Trash directory (given by getTrashRoot).

Returns 0 on success and -1 on error.

The usage is as follows:

$ hadoop fs -rm [-f] [-r |-R] [-skipTrash] [-safely] URI [URI ...]

Arguments
-f	Doesn’t display a diagnostic message or modify the exit status to reflect an error if the file doesn’t exist
-R	Deletes the directory and any content under it recursively
-r	Equivalent to the `-R` argument
-skipTrash	Bypasses the trash function, if enabled, and deletes the specified file(s) immediately. This can be useful when it is necessary to delete files from an over-quota directory
-safely	Requires safety confirmation before deleting directory with total number of files greater than `hadoop.shell.delete.limit.num.files` (in core-site.xml, default: `100`). It can be used with `-skipTrash` to prevent accidental deletion of large directories. A delay is expected when walking over large directory recursively to count the number of files to be deleted before the confirmation

Example:

$ hadoop fs -rm hdfs://nn.example.com/file /user/hadoop/emptydir

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