hdfs dfs -put with overwrite?

Question

I am using

hdfs dfs -put myfile mypath

and for some files I get

put: \'myfile\': File Exists

• does

Answer 1

You can overwrite your file in hdfs using -f command.For example

hadoop fs -put -f  

OR

hadoop fs -copyFromLocal -f  

It worked fine for me. However -f command won't work in case of get or copyToLocal command. check this question