What is difference between put and copyfromlocal

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Many of us usually get confuse while specifying difference between put and copyfromlocal.
Below table clearly specifies about this difference hope this will be usefull for you.
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	put	copyFromLocal
Usage	Usage: hdfs dfs -put < localsrc > … < dst >	hadoop fs -copyFromLocal<localsrc> URI
Functionality 1	Put ; Copy single src, or multiple srcs from local file system to the destinationfilesystem	copyFromLocal is similar to put command, except that the source is restricted to a local file reference.
Functionality 2	copy data from local system to HDFS	copy data from local system to HDFS
File Copying Specification	Single file copy: hadoop fs -put localfile/user/hadoop/hdfile Multiple file copy : hadoopfs -put localfile1 localfile2 /user/hadoop/hddir	copyFromLocal seems to copy a single one file path
Stdin Support	support reading from stdin	does not support reading from stdin

Source Code for the same from Hadoop trunk

class CopyCommands {  

  public static void registerCommands(CommandFactory factory) {

    factory.addClass(Merge.class, "-getmerge");

    factory.addClass(Cp.class, "-cp");

    factory.addClass(CopyFromLocal.class, "-copyFromLocal");

    factory.addClass(CopyToLocal.class, "-copyToLocal");

    factory.addClass(Get.class, "-get");

    factory.addClass(Put.class, "-put");

  }

  public static class Put extends CommandWithDestination {

    public static final String NAME = "put";

    public static final String USAGE = "<localsrc> ... <dst>";

    public static final String DESCRIPTION =

      "Copy files from the local file system\n" +

      "into fs.";

    ...

  }

  public static class CopyFromLocal extends Put {

    public static final String NAME = "copyFromLocal";

    public static final String USAGE = Put.USAGE;

    public static final String DESCRIPTION = "Identical to the -put command.";

  }

}

a good reply related to difference between put and copyfromlocal is mentioned over stackoverflow.

Let's make an example: If your HDFS contains the path: /tmp/dir/abc.txt 
And if your local disk also contains this path then the hdfs API won't know which one you mean, unless you specify a scheme like file:// or hdfs://. 
Maybe it picks the path you did not want to copy.
Therefore you have -copyFromLocal which is preventing you from accidentally copying the wrong file, by limiting the parameter you give to the local filesystem.
Put is for more advanced users who know which scheme to put in front.

It is always a bit confusing to new Hadoop users which filesystem they are currently in and where their files actually are.

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