Put file on HDFS with spaces in name

Question

I have a file named file name(1).zip (with the space and parentheses in it) and I want to put this file on the HDFS. But everytime I try to put it via hadoop fs -put ... , I get a an exception.

I have even tried to add quotes around the file and even tried to escape the space and parentheses but it doesn't work.

hduser@localhost:/tmp$ hadoop fs -put file\ name\(1\).zip /tmp/one
15/06/05 15:57:46 WARN util.NativeCodeLoader: Unable to load native-hadoop library for your platform... using builtin-java classes where applicable
put: unexpected URISyntaxException

hduser@localhost:/tmp$ hadoop fs -put "file\ name\(1\).zip" /tmp/one/
15/06/05 15:59:19 WARN util.NativeCodeLoader: Unable to load native-hadoop library for your platform... using builtin-java classes where applicable
put: unexpected URISyntaxException

hduser@localhost:/tmp$ hadoop fs -put "file name(1).zip" /tmp/one/
15/06/05 16:00:36 WARN util.NativeCodeLoader: Unable to load native-hadoop library for your platform... using builtin-java classes where applicable
put: unexpected URISyntaxException

Is there any work-around to put such files on the HDFS or am I missing something here.

Answer 1

The most obvious workaround is to rename the file before storing it on HDFS, don't you think?

Answer 2

Replace the spaces with %20.

The percent-encoding for space is %20

Use

hadoop fs -put first%20name.zip /tmp/one

instead of

hadoop fs -put first name.zip /tmp/one

Answer 3

HDFS is totally fine with spaces in the file or directory names.

It is the hdfs that does not support putting a file from local disk with spaces in its file name. But there is a trick to achieve this ( reference ):

cat file\ name\(1\).zip | hadoop fs -put - "/tmp/one/file name(1).zip"

Hope this helps those that need this.

Answer 4

try

fs -put 'file name(1).zip' tmp/one

Answer 5

hadoop fs -get /landing/novdata/'2017-01-05 - abc def 5H.csv'

See the single quotes around the filename