Difference between hadoop fs -put and hadoop fs -copyFromLocal

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-copyFromLocal is similar to -put command, except that the source is restricted to a local file reference.

So basically, you can do with put, all that you do with -copyFromLocal, but not vice-versa.

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-copyToLocal is similar to get command, except that the destination is restricted to a local file reference.

Hence, you can use get instead of -copyToLocal, but not the other way round.

Reference: Hadoop’s documentation.

Update: For the latest as of Oct 2015, please see this answer below.

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