[HADOOP-2475] "dfs -cat" fails if multiple files are requested

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 0.15.1

Environment

Ubuntu Linux 7.10

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Matthias Friedrich
• Created: 20/Dec/07 17:14
• Updated: 08/Jul/09 16:42
• Resolved: 28/Dec/07 20:11

Description

I try to concatenate several files using the command line client:

$ bin/hadoop dfs -cat file1 file2

The first file works, but then I get the following message:
cat: Unable to write to output stream.

The problem is that stdout is closed after the first file.

Issue Links

• duplicates: HADOOP-2422 dfs -cat multiple files fail with 'Unable to write to output stream.'