[MAPREDUCE-5620] distcp1 -delete fails when target directory contains files with percent signs

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Invalid
• Affects Version/s: 1.2.1
• Assignee: Andrew Wang
• Reporter: Andrew Wang
• Created: 12/Nov/13 21:59
• Updated: 13/Nov/13 00:12
• Resolved: 13/Nov/13 00:12

Description

Debugging a distcp1 issue, it fails to delete extra files in the target directory when there is a percent sign in the filename. I'm pretty sure this is an issue with how percent encoding is handled in FsShell (reproduced with just "hadoop fs -rmr"), but we can also fix this in distcp1 by using FileSystem instead of FsShell. This is what distcp2 does.