Unable to copy from local file system to hdfs

Question

I am trying to copy a text file on my Mac Desktop to hdfs, for that purpose I am using this code

hadoop fs -copyFromLocal Users/Vishnu/Desktop/deckofcards.txt  /user/gsaikiran/cards1

But it is throwing an Error

copyFromLocal: `deckofcards.txt': No such file or directory

It sure exists on the desktop

You are missing a leading `/`. If it actually exists,the path would be `/Users/Vishnu/Desktop/deckofcards.txt`. — franklinsijo, Apr 07 '17 at 06:27

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:10

Your command is missing a slash / at the source file path. It should be:

hadoop fs -copyFromLocal /Users/Vishnu/Desktop/deckofcards.txt /user/gsaikiran/cards1

more correctly/efficiently,

hdfs dfs -put /Users/Vishnu/Desktop/deckofcards.txt /user/gsaikiran/cards1

Also, if you are dealing with HDFS specifically, better to use hdfs dfs syntax instead of hadoop fs [1]. (It doesn't change the output in your case, but hdfs dfs command is designed for interacting with HDFS whereas hadoop fs is the deprecated one)

Unable to copy from local file system to hdfs

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