From the course: Complete Guide to Databricks for Data Engineering
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What is dbutils in Databricks? - Databricks Tutorial
From the course: Complete Guide to Databricks for Data Engineering
What is dbutils in Databricks?
- [Instructor] dbutils provides an out-of-the-box functionality in the Databricks word. Let's just see what it is and how you can use it. dbutils is a built-in utility in the Databricks. This provides you lots of functionality to play with variety of things like files, notebooks, secrets, and adding some kind of text boxes and combobox or a visualization, a little bit. So, dbutils makes your notebook more interactive. Some of the key features of the dbutils are the file system management. So, dbutils comes with a file system management utility where you can use this for copy the files, remove the files, or if you want to move the files, you can do that file system functions using this dbutils.fs library. dbutils also has a specific functionalities for the notebooks. If you want to make a chaining between a notebook or you want to call a one notebook from an another notebook, or you want to pass an output of one notebook to another notebook, in that case, you can think of using the…
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