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Sharad Agarwal commented on MAPREDUCE-157: ------------------------------------------ +1. Once Hudson passes this can be committed. > Job History log file format is not friendly for external tools. > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: MAPREDUCE-157 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-157 > Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce > Issue Type: Sub-task > Affects Versions: 0.20.1 > Reporter: Owen O'Malley > Assignee: Jothi Padmanabhan > Fix For: 0.21.0 > > Attachments: mapred-157-10Sep.patch, mapred-157-15Sep-v1.patch, > mapred-157-15Sep.patch, mapred-157-16Sep-v1.patch, mapred-157-16Sep.patch, > mapred-157-4Sep.patch, mapred-157-7Sep-v1.patch, mapred-157-7Sep.patch, > mapred-157-prelim.patch, MAPREDUCE-157-avro.patch, MAPREDUCE-157-avro.patch > > > Currently, parsing the job history logs with external tools is very difficult > because of the format. The most critical problem is that newlines aren't > escaped in the strings. That makes using tools like grep, sed, and awk very > tricky. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.