title: ingesting nifi to hdfs to a single directory
body: <h2>Scenario</h2>
  <p>CSV data named test_csv.csv from windows.
  Ingesting CSV data to hdfs. Beats &gt; <em>(ListenBeats)</em> <strong>NiFi</strong> <em>(PutHDFS)</em> &gt; HDFS</p>
  <h1>data sample:</h1>
  <pre><code>a,b,c,d,e
  a1,b1,c1,d1,e1
  a2,b2,c2,d2,e2
  a3,b3,c3,d3,e3
  a4,b4,c4,d4,e4
  a5,b5,c5,d5,e5
  a6,b6,c6,d6,e6
  a7,b7,c7,d7,e7
  a8,b8,c8,d8,e8
  </code></pre>
  <p>according to Nifi Flow UI it works fine and successfully written into hdfs. <strong>Problem is</strong></p>
  <pre><code>hadoop@ambari:~$ hdfs dfs -ls /user/nifi/test
  Found 9 items
  -rw-r--r--   3 nifi hdfs        480 2020-07-06 14:30 /user/nifi/test/0192a8bb-67ec-462e-a602-62a5425afc99
  -rw-r--r--   3 nifi hdfs        480 2020-07-06 14:30 /user/nifi/test/0211ec05-fc62-4b82-87e5-a2e20a9fb07e
  -rw-r--r--   3 nifi hdfs        481 2020-07-06 14:30 /user/nifi/test/1e227df9-f49f-46d6-a309-25e466fa14cf
  -rw-r--r--   3 nifi hdfs        480 2020-07-06 14:30 /user/nifi/test/324a0c0e-e190-4239-b594-edbf9fcab0d6
  -rw-r--r--   3 nifi hdfs        474 2020-07-06 14:30 /user/nifi/test/3d34827b-6bae-4c21-981e-9722b7a6703e
  -rw-r--r--   3 nifi hdfs        481 2020-07-06 14:30 /user/nifi/test/6873c51b-a93b-4872-b33c-0e59b85afcd5
  -rw-r--r--   3 nifi hdfs        480 2020-07-06 14:30 /user/nifi/test/98606d6b-2206-4b2e-8204-8363a87f41d0
  -rw-r--r--   3 nifi hdfs        480 2020-07-06 14:30 /user/nifi/test/f25e56b5-88d7-4135-b475-213e4e54b47f
  -rw-r--r--   3 nifi hdfs        480 2020-07-06 14:30 /user/nifi/test/f354f587-8da2-418f-be0d-34e8a79d7d39
  </code></pre>
  <p>i've tried to change <em>PutHDFS</em> directory into /user/nifi/test.csv
  it returns</p>
  <pre><code>hadoop@ambari:~$ hdfs dfs -cat /user/nifi/test.csv
  cat: `/user/nifi/test.csv': Is a directory
  hadoop@ambari:~$ hdfs dfs -ls /user/nifi/test.csv
  Found 9 items
  -rw-r--r--   3 nifi hdfs        480 2020-07-06 14:35 /user/nifi/test.csv/02cdc89d-3cb9-494a-b7f5-d280d7b7c65e
  -rw-r--r--   3 nifi hdfs        480 2020-07-06 14:35 /user/nifi/test.csv/2476906a-00d9-463a-89ef-ea885f823faa
  -rw-r--r--   3 nifi hdfs        474 2020-07-06 14:35 /user/nifi/test.csv/5b9a9d7e-0c2f-428c-8af4-e875c6db1a04
  -rw-r--r--   3 nifi hdfs        480 2020-07-06 14:35 /user/nifi/test.csv/66017da5-b55f-437b-a3cf-0a6b45d86ce8
  -rw-r--r--   3 nifi hdfs        480 2020-07-06 14:35 /user/nifi/test.csv/7be93660-75a1-416b-b019-656d466813d6
  -rw-r--r--   3 nifi hdfs        480 2020-07-06 14:35 /user/nifi/test.csv/98877296-126c-4ac9-9da5-cef62937e9f9
  -rw-r--r--   3 nifi hdfs        481 2020-07-06 14:35 /user/nifi/test.csv/ac075d33-1137-4aea-9e5b-fc11097558eb
  -rw-r--r--   3 nifi hdfs        480 2020-07-06 14:35 /user/nifi/test.csv/b9b44c08-1bc6-4e33-947b-daf265491181
  -rw-r--r--   3 nifi hdfs        481 2020-07-06 14:35 /user/nifi/test.csv/ba6464db-ef64-4993-a070-80f1392eac1e
  </code></pre>
  <p>is it possible to make nifi write to hdfs in a single directory file?
  i was expecing that it will create test.csv file in hdfs</p>
  <p>Thank you</p>