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Arun C Murthy commented on HADOOP-2501: --------------------------------------- Sure... but we _do_ need more utils for SequenceFiles and I'm open to a discussion on how we are going to structure them. > Implement utility-tools for working with SequenceFiles > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HADOOP-2501 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-2501 > Project: Hadoop > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: io > Reporter: Arun C Murthy > > It would be nice to implement a bunch of utilities to work with SequenceFiles: > * info (print-out header information such as key/value types, compression > type/codec etc.) > * cat > * head/tail > * merge multiple seq-files into one > * ... > I'd imagine this would look like: > {noformat} > $ bin/hadoop seq -info /user/joe/blah.seq > $ bin/hadoop seq -head -n 10 /user/joe/blah.seq > {noformat} -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.