FsShell -getmerge source file pattern is broken
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                 Key: HADOOP-6387
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6387
             Project: Hadoop Common
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: fs
            Reporter: Eli Collins
             Fix For: 0.22.0


The FsShell -getmerge command doesn't work if the "source file pattern" matches 
files. See below. If the current behavior is intended then we should update the 
help documentation and java docs to match, but it would be nice if the user 
could specify a set of files in a directory rather than just directories.

{code}
$ hadoop fs -help getmerge
-getmerge <src> <localdst>:  Get all the files in the directories that 
                match the source file pattern and merge and sort them to only
                one file on local fs. <src> is kept.
$ hadoop fs -ls
Found 3 items
-rw-r--r--   1 eli supergroup          2 2009-11-23 17:39 /user/eli/1.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 eli supergroup          2 2009-11-23 17:39 /user/eli/2.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 eli supergroup          2 2009-11-23 17:39 /user/eli/3.txt
$ hadoop fs -getmerge /user/eli/*.txt sorted.txt
$ cat sorted.txt
cat: sorted.txt: No such file or directory
$ hadoop fs -getmerge /user/eli/* sorted.txt
$ cat sorted.txt
cat: sorted.txt: No such file or directory
$ hadoop fs -getmerge /user/* sorted.txt
$ cat sorted.txt 
1
2
3
{code}

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