I think you need to play with some quotes, its more likely a bash problem. one way to debug is bash -x pig -f script.pig -param md=$(cat metadata.dat) and check what does hadoop jar gets in the end.
try - md="$(cat metadata.dat)" or -md="'$(cat metadata.dat)'" (single quote inside double quote and so on.. Thanks, Aniket On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Saurabh S <saurab...@live.com> wrote: > > Here is a sample LOAD statement from Programming Pig book: > > daily = load 'NYSE_daily' as (exchange:chararray, symbol:chararray, > date:chararray, open:float, high:float, low:float, close:float, > volume:int, adj_close:float); > > In my case, there are around 250 columns to load. So, I created a file, > say, metadata.dat with its contents as follows: > > (exchange:chararray, symbol:chararray, > > date:chararray, open:float, high:float, low:float, close:float, > > volume:int, adj_close:float) > > My load statement now looks like > > daily = load 'NYSE_daily' as $md; > > and the execution looks like. > > pig -f script.pig -param md=$(cat metadata.dat) > > However, I get the following error in this method: > > ERROR 1000: Error during parsing. Lexical error at line 9, column 0. > Encountered: <EOF> after : "" > > Copying the contents of the file in appropriate place works fine. But the > pig script is cluttered with the metdata and I would like to separate it > from the script. Any ideas? > > HCatLoader() does not seem to be available on my system. > > > > -- "...:::Aniket:::... Quetzalco@tl"
