[jira] [Moved] (HADOOP-8140) dfs -getmerge should process its argments better

["Daryn Sharp (Moved) (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8140?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Daryn Sharp moved HDFS-152 to HADOOP-8140:
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        Key: HADOOP-8140  (was: HDFS-152)
    Project: Hadoop Common  (was: Hadoop HDFS)
    
> dfs -getmerge  should process its argments better 
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>
>                 Key: HADOOP-8140
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8140
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: arkady borkovsky
>            Assignee: Robert Chansler
>         Attachments: Hadoop-1004_1.patch
>
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> The command only works if its argument is a directory
> If the argement is a file or a wildcard, it does nothing without any message.
> If not arguments are given, the command fails with a stack dump.
> The improved version should:
> -- produce an error message in case it cannot perform meaningful action (no argument, or no matching files)
> -- copy the files specified by a wildcard expresstion.  (A single file is special case of this).

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