Copy file from HDFS to the local file system

Question

How to copy file from HDFS to the local file system . How can i moved them to my local for further validations.i am tried through winscp .

Answer 1

There are two possible ways to copy data from hdfs to local filesystem:

1.      bin/hadoop fs -get /hdfs/source/path /localfs/destination/path

2.      bin/hadoop fs -copyToLocal /hdfs/source/path /localfs/destination/path

Alternatively:

You can also download the file from hdfs to local filesystem. Just, point your web browser to HDFS WEBUI(namenode_machine:50070) and select the file and download it.

Hope this will help.