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How to delete a file in HDFS which is in different cluster?

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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

clusterA-ip ] $ hdfs dfs -rm hdfs://clusterB-ip:8888/path/to/the/file.txt

But this is not working. Could you please help?

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Finally I fixed it. Thanks @Emil.

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.

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Finally I fixed it. Thanks @Emil.

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.