Distcp with wildcard

[#1]

I want to copy only csv files from on directory into another, I use the command:

hadoop distcp /a/b/*.csv /e/f/

The issue here is, if there's multiple csv files under /a/b/, this command would work, it will copy all csv files into the directory /e/f/, however, if there's only one csv file, it will be copied into /e/f where f is a file not a directory, is there a way to resolve this? Thanks in advance!

[#2 · Accepted solution]

I haven't been able to try this with distcp, but a similar thing happens with hdfs dfs commands. What I found is if you have your target folder created (e.g. hdfs dfs -mkdir /e/f/), then copying into that folder will give you all of your CSVs as separate files. If you don't have /e/f/ created ahead of time, then Hadoop will create it for you and rename your source csv to be called "f". Hope that makes sense and helps.