Hadoop: count: count number of files, direcotories, content size in a folder

“count” command is used to count the number of directories, files and bytes under the paths that match the specified file pattern.

Usage:
hadoop fs [generic options] -count [-q] [-h] <path> ...

 

$hadoop fs -count -h -v /user/cloudera/demo2
   DIR_COUNT   FILE_COUNT       CONTENT_SIZE PATHNAME
           1            5              8.7 M /user/cloudera/demo2

 

Referred Articles

http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.7.0/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-common/FileSystemShell.html

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