Hi Friends, I am trying to understand the PIG scripting. I have created directory called pig_demo and am not able to find when i do hadoop fs -ls / Appericiate your timely response on this.   details are given bleow 1) [cloudera@quickstart ~]$ pwd /home/cloudera [cloudera@quickstart ~]$ hadoop fs -ls / Found 5 items drwxr-xr-x   - hbase supergroup          0 2015-10-29 13:01 /hbase drwxr-xr-x   - solr  solr                0 2015-06-09 08:55 /solr drwxrwxrwx   - hdfs  supergroup          0 2015-10-09 06:24 /tmp drwxr-xr-x   - hdfs  supergroup          0 2015-06-09 08:56 /user drwxr-xr-x   - hdfs  supergroup          0 2015-06-09 08:54 /var   2) [cloudera@quickstart ~]$ hadoop fs -mkdir pig_demo mkdir: `pig_demo': File exists [cloudera@quickstart ~]$ hadoop fs -ls / Found 5 items drwxr-xr-x   - hbase supergroup          0 2015-10-29 13:01 /hbase drwxr-xr-x   - solr  solr                0 2015-06-09 08:55 /solr drwxrwxrwx   - hdfs  supergroup          0 2015-10-09 06:24 /tmp drwxr-xr-x   - hdfs  supergroup          0 2015-06-09 08:56 /user drwxr-xr-x   - hdfs  supergroup          0 2015-06-09 08:54 /var ... View more