HDFS and MapReduce - Cloudera Administration - page 43

• copyFromLocal : This command copies a file/files from the local filesystem to
HDFS.
The syntax of the copyFromLocal command is hdfs dfs -
copyFromLocal <localsrc> URI . The following is the screenshot show-
ing an example of the copyFromLocal command:
• copyToLocal : This command copies a file/files from HDFS to thelocal filesys-
tem.
The syntax of the copyToLocal command is hdfs dfs -copyToLocal
URI <localdst> . The following is the screenshot showing an example of the
copyToLocal command:
• cp : This command copies files within HDFS.
The syntax of the cp command is hdfs dfs -cp URI [URI …] <dest> .
The following is the screenshot showing an example of the cp command:
• mkdir : This command creates a directory in HDFS.