Sure. Have filed https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8788 .. Would be interested in what comes out in the discussion.
Thanks hemanth On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Robert Evans <ev...@yahoo-inc.com> wrote: > I think most of the rational is for backwards compatibility, but I could > be wrong. If you want to change it file a JIRA about it and we can > discuss on the JIRA the merits of the change. > > --Bobby > > On 9/11/12 6:28 AM, "Hemanth Yamijala" <yhema...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>hadoop fs -ls dirname >> >>lists entries like >> >>dirname/file1 >>dirname/file2 >> >>i.e. dirname is repeated. And it takes a small second to realize that >>there's actually no directory called dirname under dirname. >> >>Native ls doesn't repeat dirname when listing the output. >> >>I suppose the current behaviour is to handle globbing. So, >> >>hadoop fs -ls dirname* >> >>will list >> >>dirname1/file1 >>dirname2/file1 >> >>which makes a little more sense. In contrast, native ls will list the >>same as >> >>dirname1: >>file1 >> >>dirname2: >>file1 >> >>Is there a rationale to keep this as the listing behaviour in Hadoop ? >
