https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-to-upload-data-from-local-machine-to-HDFS-on-Azure-using/m-p/127990#M39228 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/11430/cwarren.html" nodeid="11430">@Cameron Warren</A></P><P>You need to first scp your file to Azure. Once that's done, you can do "copyFromLocal" to copy file to your hdfs.</P><PRE>hdfs dfs -copyFromLocal /path/to/file /dest/path/on/hdfs</PRE> Wed, 31 Aug 2016 09:42:06 GMT mqureshi 2016-08-31T09:42:06Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-to-upload-data-from-local-machine-to-HDFS-on-Azure-using/m-p/127989#M39227 <P>I am trying to upload data from my local machine to HDFS on Azure using the command line.</P><P>This is a simple task when using the Ambari GUI - you simply hit browse and then select the file you want:</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="7107-capture.jpg" style="width: 1198px;"><img src="https://community.cloudera.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/22553i8D9E48ACA86DE95F/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="7107-capture.jpg" alt="7107-capture.jpg" /></span></P><P>However, this is not so simple a task in the command shell it seems. I've tried various methods and the only information I can find online are solutions involving Azure's HDInsight. </P><P> For clarity:</P><P>Goal - upload a csv file from my local machine to HDFS on azure using the command line (Hortonworks Sandbox). The basic hdfs dfs -put command does not work as it can't find the file. </P><P>The reason I'd like to do this on the command line is because the Hortonworks cert exam is entirely in the shell - so I'd like to understand the solution. </P><P>Any assistance would be wonderful!</P> Mon, 19 Aug 2019 09:54:04 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-to-upload-data-from-local-machine-to-HDFS-on-Azure-using/m-p/127989#M39227 cwarren 2019-08-19T09:54:04Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-to-upload-data-from-local-machine-to-HDFS-on-Azure-using/m-p/127990#M39228 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/11430/cwarren.html" nodeid="11430">@Cameron Warren</A></P><P>You need to first scp your file to Azure. Once that's done, you can do "copyFromLocal" to copy file to your hdfs.</P><PRE>hdfs dfs -copyFromLocal /path/to/file /dest/path/on/hdfs</PRE> Wed, 31 Aug 2016 09:42:06 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-to-upload-data-from-local-machine-to-HDFS-on-Azure-using/m-p/127990#M39228 mqureshi 2016-08-31T09:42:06Z