[jira] Updated: (HADOOP-7164) rmr command is not displaying any error message when a path contains wildcard characters and does not exist.

["Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE updated HADOOP-7164:
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    Hadoop Flags: [Incompatible change]

> tcsh and bash behaves differently for multiple globbing.

If the behavior is not standardized, I suggest to keep the current implementation.

Marking this as "Incompatible Change".

> rmr command is not displaying any error message when a path contains wildcard characters and does not exist.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-7164
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-7164
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: fs
>    Affects Versions: 0.20.1, 0.20.2
>            Reporter: Uma Maheswara Rao G
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: HDFS-1609-src.patch, HDFS-1609-test.patch, HDFS-1609.patch
>
>
> When we give invalid directory path then it will show error message on the console. But if we provide the wildcard expression in invalid directory path then it will not show any error message even there is no pattern match for that path.
> linux-9j5v:/home/hadoop-hdfs-0.22.0-SNAPSHOT/bin # ./hdfs dfs -rmr /test/test
> rmr: cannot remove /test/test: No such file or directory.
> *linux-9j5v:/home/hadoop-hdfs-0.22.0-SNAPSHOT/bin # ./hdfs dfs -rmr /test* *
> *linux-9j5v:/home/hadoop-hdfs-0.22.0-SNAPSHOT/bin #*

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