File count in an HDFS directory

Question

In Java code, I want to connect to a directory in HDFS, learn the number of files in that directory, get their names and want to read them. I can already read the files but I co

Answer 1

On command line, you can do it as below.

 hdfs dfs -ls $parentdirectory | awk '{system("hdfs dfs -count " $6) }'