Sangjin Lee created HADOOP-12747:
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             Summary: support wildcard in libjars argument
                 Key: HADOOP-12747
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-12747
             Project: Hadoop Common
          Issue Type: New Feature
          Components: util
            Reporter: Sangjin Lee
            Assignee: Sangjin Lee


There is a problem when a user job adds too many dependency jars in their 
command line. The HADOOP_CLASSPATH part can be addressed, including using 
wildcards (\*). But the same cannot be done with the -libjars argument. Today 
it takes only fully specified file paths.

We may want to consider supporting wildcards as a way to help users in this 
situation. The idea is to handle it the same way the JVM does it: \* expands to 
the list of jars in that directory. It does not traverse into any child 
directory.

Also, it probably would be a good idea to do it only for libjars (i.e. don't do 
it for -files and -archives).



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