https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-to-delete-a-file-in-HDFS-which-is-in-different-cluster/m-p/116110#M26190 <P>I am creating a workflow in which I need to delete some HDFS files which are in a different cluster. Below is the command that i have tried</P><PRE>clusterA-ip ] $ hdfs dfs -rm hdfs://clusterB-ip:8888/path/to/the/file.txt</PRE><P>But this is not working. Could you please help?</P> Tue, 26 Apr 2016 13:37:52 GMT Alexraj84 2016-04-26T13:37:52Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-to-delete-a-file-in-HDFS-which-is-in-different-cluster/m-p/116110#M26190 <P>I am creating a workflow in which I need to delete some HDFS files which are in a different cluster. Below is the command that i have tried</P><PRE>clusterA-ip ] $ hdfs dfs -rm hdfs://clusterB-ip:8888/path/to/the/file.txt</PRE><P>But this is not working. Could you please help?</P> Tue, 26 Apr 2016 13:37:52 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-to-delete-a-file-in-HDFS-which-is-in-different-cluster/m-p/116110#M26190 Alexraj84 2016-04-26T13:37:52Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-to-delete-a-file-in-HDFS-which-is-in-different-cluster/m-p/116111#M26191 <P>Finally I fixed it. Thanks @Emil.</P><P>The command was right but I was using the wrong IP address. I was using HUE's ip as clusterB ip. I replaced it with the namenode ip and it has worked. </P> Wed, 27 Apr 2016 11:48:57 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-to-delete-a-file-in-HDFS-which-is-in-different-cluster/m-p/116111#M26191 Alexraj84 2016-04-27T11:48:57Z