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Apache Hadoop is a framework for distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers.

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Usage: hadoop [OPTIONS] SUBCOMMAND [SUBCOMMAND OPTIONS]
 or    hadoop [OPTIONS] CLASSNAME [CLASSNAME OPTIONS]
  where CLASSNAME is a user-provided Java class

  OPTIONS is none or any of:

--config dir                     Hadoop config directory
--debug                          turn on shell script debug mode
--help                           usage information
buildpaths                       attempt to add class files from build tree
hostnames list[,of,host,names]   hosts to use in worker mode
hosts filename                   list of hosts to use in worker mode
loglevel level                   set the log4j level for this command
workers                          turn on worker mode

  SUBCOMMAND is one of:


    Admin Commands:

daemonlog     get/set the log level for each daemon

    Client Commands:

checknative   check native Hadoop and compression libraries availability
classpath     prints the class path needed to get the Hadoop jar and the required libraries
conftest      validate configuration XML files
credential    interact with credential providers
dtutil        operations related to delegation tokens
envvars       display computed Hadoop environment variables
fs            run a generic filesystem user client
jar <jar>     run a jar file. NOTE: please use "yarn jar" to launch YARN applications, not this
              command.
jnipath       prints the java.library.path
kdiag         Diagnose Kerberos Problems
kerbname      show auth_to_local principal conversion
key           manage keys via the KeyProvider
rbfbalance    move directories and files across router-based federation namespaces
version       print the version

    Daemon Commands:

registrydns   run the registry DNS server

SUBCOMMAND may print help when invoked w/o parameters or with -h.
Options (3)
OptionDescriptionSource
--config dirHadoop config directoryhelp
--debugturn on shell script debug modehelp
--helpusage informationhelp

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