On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 01:01:49PM -0500, Danfeng Li wrote:
> I read alot of about pig can ship a tar file and untar it before
> execution. However, I couldn't find any example. Can someone provide
> an example?
The trick is to use the `SH' statement to untar the file.
> What I would like to do is to ship a python module, such as nltk,
> for my streaming.
Try something like (untested)
DEFINE my_cmd `relative/path/to/my_cmd/in/tar/file.py`
SHIP('nltk.tar');
SH tar xf nltk.tar
Does this help/work?
Regards,
Thomas.
