It moves the files from source hdfs to destination hdfs. Hadoop mv command can also be used to move multiple source files into the target directory. In this case the target should be a directory.
The syntax is shown below:
hadoop fs -mv /user/DPhadoop/SrcFile /user/DPhadoop/TgtFile
hadoop fs -mv /user/DPhadoop/file1 /user/DPhadoop/file2 hdfs://namenodehost/user/DPhadoop/TgtDirectory
The syntax is shown below:
hadoop fs -mv /user/DPhadoop/SrcFile /user/DPhadoop/TgtFile
hadoop fs -mv /user/DPhadoop/file1 /user/DPhadoop/file2 hdfs://namenodehost/user/DPhadoop/TgtDirectory