Cool. I used the 2nd method. Will look out for other 2 also. Thanks, Praveenesh
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Harsh J <ha...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Praveenesh, > > The utility "hadoop fs -text <seqfile>", documented at > http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/current/file_system_shell.html#text > can read SequenceFiles and print their string representations out. > Will this be of any help? > > Otherwise, you want to use a SequenceFile.Reader over your given file > and after reading each record out, store them in their text > representation with a regular file writer. An even easier way may be > an identity job with sequence-file input format and text output > format. > > On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 3:28 PM, praveenesh kumar <praveen...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I am running SimpleKmeansClustering sample code from mahout in action. > How > > can I convert sequence file written using SequenceFile.Writer into plain > > HDFS file so that I can read it properly. I know mahout has seqdumper > tool > > to read it. But I want to create normal text file rather than sequence > file > > as output. Can anyone tell me how to do it inside the code. > > ITs kind of urgent. Please help. > > > > Thanks, > > Praveenesh > > > > -- > Harsh J > Customer Ops. Engineer > Cloudera | http://tiny.cloudera.com/about >