--- title: 'Demo: HDFS File Operations Made Easy with Hue' author: admin type: post date: 2013-03-01T05:00:00+00:00 url: /demo-hdfs-file-operations-made-easy-with-hue/ tumblr_gethue_permalink: - http://gethue.tumblr.com/post/48706244836/demo-hdfs-file-operations-made-easy-with-hue tumblr_gethue_id: - 48706244836 sf_thumbnail_type: - none sf_thumbnail_link_type: - link_to_post sf_detail_type: - none sf_page_title: - 1 sf_page_title_style: - standard sf_no_breadcrumbs: - 1 sf_page_title_bg: - none sf_page_title_text_style: - light sf_background_image_size: - cover sf_social_sharing: - 1 sf_sidebar_config: - left-sidebar sf_left_sidebar: - Sidebar-2 sf_right_sidebar: - Sidebar-1 sf_caption_position: - caption-right slide_template: - default ampforwp-amp-on-off: - default categories: - Browsing --- Managing and viewing data in [HDFS][1] is an important part of Big Data analytics. [Hue][2], the open source web-based interface that makes [Apache Hadoop][3] easier to use, helps you do that through a GUI in your browser —  instead of logging into a Hadoop gateway host with a terminal program and using the command line. The first episode in a new series of Hue demos, the video below demonstrates how to get up and running quickly with HDFS file operations via Hue’s File Browser application. ### Other Features In addition to the above scenario, File Browser lets you perform more advanced file operations: * Download * Rename * Move * Copy * Recursive change of permissions * Recursive change of ownership * Sort by attributes (e.g. name, size, date…) * View content of zip/gz text * View content of huge files * Drag & drop files to upload ### What’s Next? Thanks to File Browser, file operations in HDFS are only a few clicks away. Hue’s other apps leverage the File Browser as well and offer direct links to the outputs of your MapReduce jobs, Hive queries, or Pig scripts so that you can share or take a glance/visualize in no time. Thank you for watching, and stay tuned for upcoming episodes! Feel free to ask questions in comments or via the [Hue group][4]. [1]: http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r1.0.4/hdfs_user_guide.html [2]: http://cloudera.github.com/hue [3]: http://hadoop.apache.org/ [4]: https://groups.google.com/a/cloudera.org/forum/?fromgroups#%21forum/hue-user