Slight modification: I now know how to add files to the distributed file cache, which can be done via this command placed in the main or run class:
DistributedCache.addCacheFile(new URI("/user/hadoop/thefile.dat"), conf); However I am still having trouble locating the file in the distributed cache. *How do I call the file path of thefile.dat in the distributed cache as a string?* I am using Hadoop 0.20.2 On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Roger Chen <rogc...@ucdavis.edu> wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anybody have examples of how one moves files from the local > filestructure/HDFS to the distributed cache in MapReduce? A Google search > turned up examples in Pig but not MR. > > -- > Roger Chen > UC Davis Genome Center > -- Roger Chen UC Davis Genome Center