Hi, I dont have a system to test it right now, but I have been passing it using under parameter -p and it works.
change line to accept parameters like avro = load '$INPUT' USING AvroStorage(); bin/pig -p INPUT="/data/2012/trace_ejb3/2012-**01-0[12].avro" <scriptName> I think if you dont give double quotes then the expansion is done by OS. Please let us know if it doesnt work... On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Bart Verwilst <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have the following files on HDFS: > > -rw-r--r-- 3 hdfs supergroup 22989179 2012-11-22 11:17 > /data/2012/trace_ejb3/2012-01-**01.avro > -rw-r--r-- 3 hdfs supergroup 240551819 2012-11-22 14:27 > /data/2012/trace_ejb3/2012-01-**02.avro > -rw-r--r-- 3 hdfs supergroup 324464635 2012-11-22 18:28 > /data/2012/trace_ejb3/2012-01-**03.avro > -rw-r--r-- 3 hdfs supergroup 345526418 2012-11-22 21:30 > /data/2012/trace_ejb3/2012-01-**04.avro > -rw-r--r-- 3 hdfs supergroup 351322916 2012-11-23 00:28 > /data/2012/trace_ejb3/2012-01-**05.avro > -rw-r--r-- 3 hdfs supergroup 325953043 2012-11-23 04:32 > /data/2012/trace_ejb3/2012-01-**06.avro > -rw-r--r-- 3 hdfs supergroup 107019156 2012-11-23 05:58 > /data/2012/trace_ejb3/2012-01-**07.avro > -rw-r--r-- 3 hdfs supergroup 46392850 2012-11-23 06:37 > /data/2012/trace_ejb3/2012-01-**08.avro > -rw-r--r-- 3 hdfs supergroup 361970930 2012-11-23 10:06 > /data/2012/trace_ejb3/2012-01-**09.avro > -rw-r--r-- 3 hdfs supergroup 398462505 2012-11-23 13:44 > /data/2012/trace_ejb3/2012-01-**10.avro > -rw-r--r-- 3 hdfs supergroup 400785976 2012-11-23 17:17 > /data/2012/trace_ejb3/2012-01-**11.avro > -rw-r--r-- 3 hdfs supergroup 400027565 2012-11-23 20:43 > /data/2012/trace_ejb3/2012-01-**12.avro > > Using Pig 0.10.0-cdh4.1.2, i try to load those files, and describe them. > > REGISTER 'hdfs:///lib/avro-1.7.2.jar'; > REGISTER 'hdfs:///lib/json-simple-1.1.**1.jar'; > REGISTER 'hdfs:///lib/piggybank.jar'; > > DEFINE AvroStorage org.apache.pig.piggybank.**storage.avro.AvroStorage(); > > avro = load '/data/2012/trace_ejb3/2012-**01-01.avro' USING AvroStorage(); > > describe avro; > > > This works, same with 2012-01-02.avro. > > However, as soon as i want to include multiple files, no dice. > > avro = load '/data/2012/trace_ejb3/2012-**01-{01,02}.avro' USING > AvroStorage(); > gives me: > 2012-11-23 21:41:07,475 [main] ERROR org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.**Grunt - > ERROR 2999: Unexpected internal error. null > Caused by: java.net.URISyntaxException: Illegal character in path at index > 30: /data/2012/trace_ejb3/2012-01-**{01,02}.avro > > avro = load '/data/2012/trace_ejb3/2012-**01-*.avro' USING AvroStorage(); > gives me: > Schema for avro unknown. > > avro = load '/data/2012/trace_ejb3/2012-**01-0[12].avro' USING > AvroStorage(); > also gives me: > Caused by: java.net.URISyntaxException: Illegal character in path at index > 31: /data/2012/trace_ejb3/2012-01-**0[12].avro > > What am i doing wrong here? According to http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/** > r0.21.0/api/org/apache/hadoop/**fs/FileSystem.html#globStatus%** > 28org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path%29<http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r0.21.0/api/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FileSystem.html#globStatus%28org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path%29>, > this should all be acceptable input? > > Thanks in advance! > > Kind regards, > > Bart >
