Commands to load data ---------------------- a) Load data $ hadoop fs -mkdir oozieProject $ hadoop fs -put oozieProject/* oozieProject/ b) Validate load $ hadoop fs -ls -R oozieProject | awk '{print $8}' You should see... oozieProject/logs/airawat-syslog/<<node>>/<<year>>/<<month>>/messages oozieProject/workflowHdfsAndEmailActions/job.properties oozieProject/workflowHdfsAndEmailActions/workflow.xml $ hadoop fs -rm -R oozieProject/data