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Databricks Magic Command

Wolverine
New Contributor III

I am trying few commands 

what is the equivalent magic command of 

dbutils.fs.rm("dbfs:/sampledir",True)
 

Actually I am looking how to use magic commands in same way as dbutils  . For Instance 

 dbutils.fs.head('dbfs:/FileStore/<<name>>.csv',10) Gives 10 bytes  I am looking for magic command like how to give second parameter   %fs head dbfs:/FileStore/hotel_data.csv 10(If we give upto 10) it works but when we pass second one like 10 it will not give output like 10 bytes as above 
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Giri-Patcham
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee

@Wolverine Try %fs rm -r sampledir 
to delete recursively

Ok Actually I am looking how to use magic commands in same way as dbutils  . For Instance 

 dbutils.fs.head('dbfs:/FileStore/<<name>>.csv',10) Gives 10 bytes  I am looking for magic command like how to give second parameter   %fs head dbfs:/FileStore/hotel_data.csv 10(If we give upto 10) it works but when we pass second one like 10 it will not give output like 10 bytes as above 

Witold
Honored Contributor

You could use shell commands, like

 

%sh rm -r sampledir

 

You need to check for the correct path before, I currently don't know where dbfs folders are exactly mounted

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