If -param input=s3n://foo/bar/baz/*/ blah.pig is part of a command line, you'd have to add quotes: -param 'input=s3n://foo/bar/baz/*/' blah.pig to inhibit your shell from trying to interpret the *.
William F Dowling Senior Technologist Thomson Reuters 0 +1 215 823 3853 -----Original Message----- From: Ayon Sinha [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 2:18 PM To: Pig Mailinglist Subject: Possible Pig 9.1 globing bug in parameter substitution when using -param input=s3n://foo/bar/baz/*/ blah.pig it throws java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.pig.tools.parameters.ParameterSubstitutionPreprocessor.genSubstitutedFile(ParameterSubstitutionPreprocessor.java:79) at org.apache.pig.Main.runParamPreprocessor(Main.java:710) at org.apache.pig.Main.run(Main.java:517) at org.apache.pig.Main.main(Main.java:108) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:156) It works when my load statement is changed from: a = load '$input' using PigStorage(); to a = load 's3n://foo/bar/baz/*/' using PigStorage(); (I'm under a deadline so can't file a JIRA bug rightaway) -Ayon See My Photos on Flickr Also check out my Blog for answers to commonly asked questions.
