Deleting files and folders in HDFS

In the previous example, we copied the test.txt file in the hadooptest folder. Let's now try to delete this file. To delete it from HDFS, execute the following command:

$ hdfs dfs -rm /hadooptest/test.txt

Now we will try to delete the folder hadooptest, which we created in our first example of working with Hadoop hands-on. To delete this folder from HDFS, execute the following command:

$ hdfs dfs -rmdir /hadooptest

The output of the preceding command should be similar to the following screenshot:

Figure-3.2.4