There isn't one, and this ought to be the only way (unless you're willing to build an infrastructure that can keep a block->lines meta info mapping for optimally fetching a single block given a line # -- but that's overkill?).
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 11:37 PM, Shi Yu <sh...@uchicago.edu> wrote: > I use > > hadoop dfs -text <path> | head-n > > hadoop dfs -text <path> | tail-n > > to browse the n-th line from the head or from the tail. But it is slow when > the file is large. Is there any command that goes directly to a specific > line in dfs? > > Shi > -- Harsh J
