Just to further clarify, you can first call coalesce with argument 1 and then call saveAsTextFile. For example,
rdd.coalesce(1).saveAsTextFile(...) Mohammed From: Mohammed Guller Sent: Tuesday, August 4, 2015 9:39 PM To: 'Brandon White'; user Subject: RE: Combining Spark Files with saveAsTextFile One options is to use the coalesce method in the RDD class. Mohammed From: Brandon White [mailto:bwwintheho...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 4, 2015 7:23 PM To: user Subject: Combining Spark Files with saveAsTextFile What is the best way to make saveAsTextFile save as only a single file?
