How about the second approach , get the application/job id which the pig creates and submits to cluster and then find the job output counter for that job from the JT.
Thanks, Rahul On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:37 PM, Mix Nin <pig.mi...@gmail.com> wrote: > It is a text file. > > If we want to use wc, we need to copy file from HDFS and then use wc, and > this may take time. Is there a way without copying file from HDFS to local > directory? > > Thanks > > > On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Rahul Bhattacharjee < > rahul.rec....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> few pointers. >> >> what kind of files are we talking about. for text you can use wc , for >> avro data files you can use avro-tools. >> >> or get the job that pig is generating , get the counters for that job >> from the jt of your hadoop cluster. >> >> Thanks, >> Rahul >> >> >> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:21 PM, Mix Nin <pig.mi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> What is the bets way to get the count of records in an HDFS file >>> generated by a PIG script. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> >> >
