https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/How-to-overwrite-an-existing-output-file-dir-during/m-p/214809#M176721 <P>you can use delete(outputpath,true) method which takes two arguments </P><P>Example</P><P>Path path = new Path(outputDirectory);</P><P>path.getFileSystem(conf).delete(path,true);</P> Fri, 06 Oct 2017 17:41:12 GMT pranay_bomminen 2017-10-06T17:41:12Z