https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/How-to-discp-a-partitioned-multi-level-directory-while/m-p/122409#M85165 <P>Hi,</P><P>@Peter Coates</P><P> Assuming you have moderate number of files did you tried the below option:</P><P>bash$ hadoop distcp2 -f hdfs://nn1:8020/srclist hdfs://nn2:8020/bar/foo </P><P>Where srclist contains (you can populate this file by recursive listing) </P><P>hdfs://nn1:8020/foo/dir1/a </P><P> hdfs://nn1:8020/foo/dir2/b</P><P>More info here:</P><P><A href="https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r1.2.1/distcp2.html" target="_blank">https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r1.2.1/distcp2.html</A></P><P>Please let me know if this works.</P><P>Thanks</P> Wed, 20 Apr 2016 10:01:36 GMT rbiswas1 2016-04-20T10:01:36Z