Hi ggangadharan   I follow the way u suggest, but now i need help in code that we can execute that hdfscode shell script from python script. and do it as an   import subprocess  subprocess.call('./home/test.sh/' ,shell=True) file = open('toDelete, 'r') for each in file: subprocess.call(["hadoop", "fs", "-rm", "-f", each])   but now my shell script is not executing and not showing any output ,plz suggest me what i do.   thanks ... View more