Hadoop - How to remove files by name

Question

Is there a command in hadoop to remove files starting with ab ? The files can occur in sub-directories and the operation should be recursive. Something similar to the below :

Hadoop fs -rmr /mydir/ab*

Answer 1

You can try like below,

hadoop fs -rmr "/mydir/ab*"

You need to use double quotes for the path which contains wildcard.

References:

Hadoop HDFS copy with wildcards?

Hadoop fs -rm with regular expression