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Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 19:52:44 +0000 (UTC)
From: "Jeff Hodges (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] [Commented] (HDFS-3557) provide means of escaping special
 characters to `hadoop fs` command
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Jeff Hodges commented on HDFS-3557:
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Sigh, I thought I had removed all the user specific stuff. Not able to edit it, so I'll just repost with it.

$ hdfs -ls '/user/jhodges/NOPE_\{INPUT\}'
ls: Illegal file pattern: Expecting set closure character or end of range, or } for glob {INPUT at 6
$ hdfs -ls '/user/jhodges/NOPE_{INPUT}'
ls: Cannot access /user/jhodges/NOPE_{INPUT}: No such file or directory.
$ hdfs -ls /user/jhodges/NOPE_\{INPUT\}
ls: Cannot access /user/jhodges/NOPE_{INPUT}: No such file or directory.

Proof of existence:

$ hdfs -ls /user/jhodges | grep NOPE
drwxr-xr-x   - jhodges supergroup          0 2012-06-29 19:47 /user/jhodges/NOPE_{INPUT}
                
> provide means of escaping special characters to `hadoop fs` command
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HDFS-3557
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-3557
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Jeff Hodges
>            Priority: Minor
>
> When running an investigative job, I used a date parameter that selected multiple directories for the input (e.g. "my_data/2012/06/{18,19,20}"). It used this same date parameter when creating the output directory.
> But `hadoop fs` was unable to ls, getmerge, or rmr it until I used the regex operator "?" and mv to change the name (that is, `-mv output/2012/06/?18,19,20? foobar").
> Shells and filesystems for other systems provide a means of escaping "special characters" generically, but there seems to be no such means in HDFS/`hadoop fs`. Providing one would be a great way to make accessing HDFS more robust.

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