Spark 1.6.1 The following creates empty files. It prints lines OK with println
val result = lines.filter(_.contains("ASE 15")).flatMap(line => line.split("\n,")).map(word => (word, 1)).reduceByKey(_ + _) result.saveAsTextFiles("/tmp/rdd_stuff") I am getting zero length files drwxr-xr-x - hduser supergroup 0 2016-04-05 23:19 /tmp/rdd_stuff-1459894755000 drwxr-xr-x - hduser supergroup 0 2016-04-05 23:20 /tmp/rdd_stuff-1459894810000 Any ideas? Thanks, Dr Mich Talebzadeh LinkedIn * https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=AAEAAAAWh2gBxianrbJd6zP6AcPCCdOABUrV8Pw <https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=AAEAAAAWh2gBxianrbJd6zP6AcPCCdOABUrV8Pw>* http://talebzadehmich.wordpress.com