hadoop file system change directory command

hadoop

Solution

Think about it like this:

Hadoop has a special file system called "hdfs" which runs on top of existing say linux file system. There is no concept of current or present working directory a.k.a. pwd

Let's say we have following structure in hdfs:

d1/
  d2/
     f1
  d3/
     f2
     d4/
       f3

You could do cd in your Linux file system from moving from one to the other but do you think changing directory in hadoop would makes sense? HDFS is like virtual file system and you dont directly interact with hdfs except via hadoop command or job tracker.

Problem

I was going through the HADOOP fs commands list. I am little perplexed not to find any "cd" command in hadoop fs. Why is it so? It might sound silly question for the HADOOP users, but as I am beginner I can not understand why there is no list of cd command in HADOOP fs level?

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