Databricks Magic Command

Wolverine
New Contributor III

‎07-02-2024 01:14 PM - edited ‎07-02-2024 01:32 PM

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

‎07-02-2024 01:23 PM

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

Wolverine
New Contributor III
In response to Giri-Patcham

‎07-02-2024 01:30 PM

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 
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Witold
Databricks Partner

‎07-02-2024 01:25 PM - edited ‎07-02-2024 01:26 PM

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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