Hi Bai, What exactly do you mean by a 'job file' and have you considered using DistributedCache, as detailed at http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/stable/mapred_tutorial.html#DistributedCache?
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Bai Shen <baishen.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm trying to reference a directory inside my job file from my code. I > have a third party library that I need to pass a File object to which > references the directory in the job file. > > How do I go about doing this? If I just do new File("dir") it looks for > the directory on the client machine that I'm calling the job from instead > of the directory in the actual job file itself. > > Thanks. -- Harsh J