Code For Deleting Output Folder If Exist In Hadoop MapReduce Jobs

Mostly Hadoop MapReduce Jobs operates with two arguments.

Input directory and Output directory.

Each time when we run our MapReduce job we need to give  non-existing folder as our output path. So while we are doing a Trail and Error method in our MR jobs. It is good if it automatically deletes  the output folder if exists.

Here is the code for that:

/*Provides access to configuration parameters*/
Configuration conf = new Configuration();
/*Creating Filesystem object with the configuration*/
FileSystem fs = FileSystem.get(conf);
/*Check if output path (args[1])exist or not*/
if(fs.exists(new Path(args[1]))){
   /*If exist delete the output path*/
   fs.delete(new Path(args[1]),true);
}