HDFS get

In Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), the get command is used to copy files or directories from HDFS to the local file system of a machine in your Hadoop cluster. It allows you to retrieve data stored in HDFS and save it to a local directory for further analysis or processing. Here’s how to use the get command:

• <source>: This is the HDFS path of the file or directory you want to retrieve.
• <destination>: This is the local path where you want to save the file or directory from HDFS.

Here’s an example of how you can use the get command to copy a file from HDFS to the local file system:

In this example, /user/hadoop/input/myfile.txt is the source file in HDFS, and /home/user/local/ is the destination directory in the local file system where the file will be copied.

You can also use the -get command to copy entire directories from HDFS to the local file system. For example: