hadoop: Get brief summary of the space consumed by a directory or file

Using ‘-s’ option of ‘du’ command, we can get the summary of the space consumed by a directory.

$hadoop fs -du -h -s /user/cloudera
43.1 M  43.1 M  /user/cloudera
$
$hadoop fs -du -h -s /user/cloudera/demo1/atlas.docx
5.9 M  5.9 M  /user/cloudera/demo1/atlas.docx

 

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