Thanks Bejoy. That worked. On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Bejoy Ks <bejoy...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Techy > > Try using hadoop fs -text <full path of file in hdfs> > > That should give the output in some readable format. > > Regards, > Bejoy KS > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Techy Teck <comptechge...@gmail.com> > *To:* user@hive.apache.org > *Sent:* Friday, August 3, 2012 7:25 AM > *Subject:* decompress the file that has been compressed in LzoCodec format > > I am using the below command to compress the output in *Block Compression*and > I have created my table as a > *SequenceFile* > > *set mapred.output.compress=true;* > *set mapred.output.compression.type=BLOCK;* > *set > mapred.output.compression.codec=org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.LzoCodec;* > > So after the query is done, when I do *ls*, I see the below file. But > when I try to open this file using *hadoop fs -cat, *I see some weird > characters in that file, but I can also see my output too. So before > viewing this file, I need to decompress it in any format and then I need to > do the cat? If yes, then how should I decompress this file? > > */apps/hdmi/ldata/dt=20120709/attempt_201207311206_11141_r_000000_0* > > >
