Hadoop fs -cp , says file does not exist?
cp is used when you wish to copy data from one HDFS location to another HDFS location. But you intend to copy data from your local FS to HDFS. To copy data from local FS to HDFS you can use either put or copyFromLocal.
If you really wish to do it using cp then you must specify the complete path along with the scheme. Say,
hadoop fs -cp file:///Users/miqbal1/date.txt /cp by default assumes the scheme to be hdfs://
But why would you do that, when you have put and copyFromLocal??
HTH