Failed to locate the winutils binary in the hadoop binary path

Simple Solution: Download it from here and add to $HADOOP_HOME/bin

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IMPORTANT UPDATE:

For hadoop-2.6.0 you can download binaries from Titus Barik blog >>.

I have not only needed to point HADOOP_HOME to extracted directory [path], but also provide system property -Djava.library.path=[path]\bin to load native libs (dll).

If you face this problem when running a self-contained local application with Spark (i.e., after adding spark-assembly-x.x.x-hadoopx.x.x.jar or the Maven dependency to the project), a simpler solution would be to put winutils.exe (download from here) in "C:\winutil\bin". Then you can add winutils.exe to the hadoop home directory by adding the following line to the code:

System.setProperty("hadoop.home.dir", "c:\\\winutil\\\")

Source: Click here

If we directly take the binary distribution of Apache Hadoop 2.2.0 release and try to run it on Microsoft Windows, then we'll encounter ERROR util.Shell: Failed to locate the winutils binary in the hadoop binary path.

The binary distribution of Apache Hadoop 2.2.0 release does not contain some windows native components (like winutils.exe, hadoop.dll etc). These are required (not optional) to run Hadoop on Windows.

So you need to build windows native binary distribution of hadoop from source codes following "BUILD.txt" file located inside the source distribution of hadoop. You can follow the following posts as well for step by step guide with screen shot

Build, Install, Configure and Run Apache Hadoop 2.2.0 in Microsoft Windows OS

ERROR util.Shell: Failed to locate the winutils binary in the hadoop binary path