How to copy file from HDFS to the local file system

Question

1. bin/hadoop fs -get /hdfs/source/path /localfs/destination/path
2. bin/hadoop fs -copyToLocal /hdfs/source/path /localfs/destination/path
3. Point your web browser to HDFS WEBUI(namenode_machine:50070), browse to the file you intend to copy, scroll down the page and click on download the file.

In Hadoop 2.0,

hdfs dfs -copyToLocal <hdfs_input_file_path> <output_path>

where,

• hdfs_input_file_path maybe obtained from http://<<name_node_ip>>:50070/explorer.html

• output_path is the local path of the file, where the file is to be copied to.

• you may also use get in place of copyToLocal.

In order to copy files from HDFS to the local file system the following command could be run:

hadoop dfs -copyToLocal <input> <output>

• <input>: the HDFS directory path (e.g /mydata) that you want to copy
• <output>: the destination directory path (e.g. ~/Documents)

Update: Hadoop is deprecated in Hadoop 3

use hdfs dfs -copyToLocal <input> <output>

you can accomplish in both these ways.

1.hadoop fs -get <HDFS file path> <Local system directory path>
2.hadoop fs -copyToLocal <HDFS file path> <Local system directory path>

Ex:

My files are located in /sourcedata/mydata.txt I want to copy file to Local file system in this path /user/ravi/mydata

hadoop fs -get /sourcedata/mydata.txt /user/ravi/mydata/