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From: "Ben Kucinich" <benkucinich@gmail.com>
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Subject: Difference between put and copyFromLocal?
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In bin/hadoop dfs command I find these two options which seems similar to me.

           [-put <localsrc> <dst>]
           [-copyFromLocal <localsrc> <dst>]

Is there any difference between -put command and -copyFromLocal command?

Similarly what is the difference between -get command and -copyToLocal?