On 10 сент. 2014 г., at 22:19, Rich Haase <rdha...@gmail.com> wrote:

> You can write a custom output format


Any clues how can this can be done?



> , or you can write your mapreduce job in Java and use a NullWritable as 
> Susheel recommended.  
> 
> grep (and every other *nix text processing command) I can think of would not 
> be limited by a trailing tab character.  It's even quite easy to strip away 
> that tab character if you don't want it during the post processing steps you 
> want to perform with *nix commands. 


Problem is that the line itself contains a TAB in the middle, there will not be 
extra trailing TAB at the end.
So it is not that simple.
You never know if it is a TAB from the original line or it is extra TAB added 
by TextOutputFormat.

Thanks!

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