Installing on OSX

• Install Go, as described here. Make sure that $GOPATH/bin is part of your $PATH.

• In a new shell, run the following commands:

$ go get github.com/colinmarc/hdfs
$ go install github.com/colinmarc/hdfs/cmd/hdfs

• Add the following lines to your ~/.profile, after wherever you set up your $GOPATH:

source $GOPATH/src/github.com/colinmarc/hdfs/cmd/hdfs/bash_completion
HADOOP_NAMENODE="namenode.address:8020"

• In yet another new shell, test it out:

$ hdfs ls /