https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Show-hidden-files-in-HDFS/m-p/203235#M68721 <P>Is there a special command to list hidden files (files that start with a dot) in a given path in HDFS?</P> Fri, 29 Sep 2017 06:22:08 GMT vsubramanian 2017-09-29T06:22:08Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Show-hidden-files-in-HDFS/m-p/203235#M68721 <P>Is there a special command to list hidden files (files that start with a dot) in a given path in HDFS?</P> Fri, 29 Sep 2017 06:22:08 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Show-hidden-files-in-HDFS/m-p/203235#M68721 vsubramanian 2017-09-29T06:22:08Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Show-hidden-files-in-HDFS/m-p/203236#M68722 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/11659/vsubramanian.html" nodeid="11659">@vsubramanian</A></P><PRE>hdfs dfs -ls /user/hdfs</PRE><P>The above can direct show hidden files, you can directly see the below, for example</P><PRE>drwx------ - hdfs hdfs 0 2017-07-13 02:00 /user/hdfs/.Trash drwxr-xr-x - hdfs hdfs 0 2017-04-06 14:21 /user/hdfs/.hiveJars drwxr-xr-x - hdfs hdfs 0 2017-06-29 09:12 /user/hdfs/.sparkStaging drwxr-xr-x - hdfs hdfs 0 2017-04-24 15:54 /user/hdfs/SSP00805 </PRE><P>where you can see the file start with a dot.</P> Fri, 29 Sep 2017 15:32:38 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Show-hidden-files-in-HDFS/m-p/203236#M68722 YangWang 2017-09-29T15:32:38Z