Hadoop File System Browser

Through Hadoop File System Browser, we can connect to the Hadoop Cluster box, check the files and folders, and explore them. This all can be done through any machine which is in the network. It has the following functionalities:

• Connect to any node of the Hadoop Cluster.
• Browse the Hadoop FS.
• Upload, edit, delete or rename any file on Hadoop FS.
• Create/Delete folders on the Hadoop FS.
• Download any Hadoop FS file to your local system.
• Functionalities like cut/copy/paste of the files is provided (both, from local to Hadoop and vice versa).

There are many use-cases for the tool. Simplest of them can be like say, we want to copy any file which is present in the hadoop FS to our local machine. For it, conventionally we need to follow the following steps:
• Check for the exact path of the file on the web explorer (which can be used only to browse the files).
• Use the Hadoop command “copyToLocal” to copy the file from the Hadoop FS to the local FS of the name-node.
• Then use any tool like FileZilla to copy the file from the cluster machine’s local FS to your machine.

But with this tool, we can just download the file directly, and then upload it after any modifications, if required. There are many more day to day use cases.