The SequenceFile is not text file, so you can not see the content by invoking unix command cat. But you can get the text content by using hadoop command : hadoop fs -text <src>
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Andiana Squazo Ringa < andriana.ri...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I have written to a sideeffect file using SequenceFile.Writer . But when > I cat the file, it is printing some unreadable characters . I did not use > any compression code. > Why is this so? > Thanks, > Ringa. > -- Best Regards Jeff Zhang
