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Uma Maheswara Rao G commented on HDFS-1608:
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Fix for this defect is in FsShell.java but the file present in COMMON project. Patch (HDFS-1608-src.patch)
need to be updated in COMMON.
> Provide overwrite option (-overwrite/-f) in put and copyFromLocal command line options
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> Key: HDFS-1608
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1608
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: hdfs client
> Affects Versions: 0.20.1, 0.20.2
> Reporter: Uma Maheswara Rao G
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: HDFS-1608-src.patch, HDFS-1608-test.patch
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> FileSystem has the API
> *public void copyFromLocalFile(boolean delSrc, boolean overwrite, Path[] srcs, Path dst)*
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> This API provides overwrite option. But the mapping command line doesn't have this option.
To maintain the consistency and better usage the command line option also can support the
overwrite option like to put the files forcefully. ( put [-f] <srcpath> <dstPath>)
and also for copyFromLocal command line option.
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