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Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 06:44:45 +0000 (UTC)
From: "kanaka kumar avvaru (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] [Updated] (HDFS-8836) Skip newline on empty files with
 getMerge -nl
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kanaka kumar avvaru updated HDFS-8836:
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    Attachment: HDFS-8836-04.patch

> Skip newline on empty files with getMerge -nl
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>
>                 Key: HDFS-8836
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-8836
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: hdfs-client
>    Affects Versions: 2.6.0, 2.7.1
>            Reporter: Jan Filipiak
>            Assignee: kanaka kumar avvaru
>            Priority: Trivial
>         Attachments: HDFS-8836-01.patch, HDFS-8836-02.patch, HDFS-8836-03.patch, HDFS-8836-04.patch
>
>
> Hello everyone,
> I recently was in the need of using the new line option -nl with getMerge because the files I needed to merge simply didn't had one. I was merging all the files from one directory and unfortunately this directory also included empty files, which effectively led to multiple newlines append after some files. I needed to remove them manually afterwards.
> In this situation it is maybe good to have another argument that allows skipping empty files.
> Thing one could try to implement this feature:
> The call for IOUtils.copyBytes(in, out, getConf(), false); doesn't
> return the number of bytes copied which would be convenient as one could
> skip append the new line when 0 bytes where copied or one would check the file size before.
> I posted this Idea on the mailing list http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hadoop-user/201507.mbox/%3C55B25140.3060005%40trivago.com%3E but I didn't really get many responses, so I thought I my try this way.


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