This is a Quick Post, Just want to share a command to upload local data to HDFS using Hadoop Command Line.

The command looks like:

> hadoop fs -copyFromLocal input.txt input/SqrtJob/input.txt

In the above image, you’ll see that the File Input.txt located at c:hadoopparasdoshidatasets was uploaded to HDFS at input/sqrtjob

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