However, note that DFSShell currently has some issues with
percent-encoded characters.

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-4329

-andy

On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Ted Dunning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The colon is a reserved character in a URI according to RFC 3986[1].
>
> You should be able to percent encode those colons as %3A.
>
> [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Mohit Anchlia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>>
>> It looks like hadoop fs -put command doesn't like ":" in the file names.
>> Is there a way I can escape it?
>>
>>
>> hadoop fs -put /home/mapr/p/hjob.2012:12:26:11.0.dat
>> /user/apuser/temp-qdc/scratch/merge_jobs
>>
>> put: java.net.URISyntaxException: Relative path in absolute URI:
>> hjob.2012:12:26:11.0.dat
>
>

It looks like hadoop fs -put command doesn't like ":" in the file names. Is
there a way I can escape it?
hadoop fs -put /home/mapr/p/hjob.2012:12:26:11.0.dat
/user/apuser/temp-qdc/scratch/merge_jobs

put: java.net.URISyntaxException: Relative path in absolute URI:
hjob.2012:12:26:11.0.dat