I have an RDD containing binary data. I would like to use 'RDD.pipe' to
pipe that binary data to an external program that will translate it to
string/text data. Unfortunately, it seems that Spark is mangling the binary
data before it gets passed to the external program.
This code is representative of what I am trying to do. What am I doing
wrong? How can I pipe binary data in Spark? Maybe it is getting corrupted
when I read it in initially with 'textFile'?
bin = sc.textFile("binary-data.dat")
csv = bin.pipe ("/usr/bin/binary-to-csv.sh")
csv.saveAsTextFile("text-data.csv")
Specifically, I am trying to use Spark to transform pcap (packet capture)
data to text/csv so that I can perform an analysis on it.
Thanks!
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Nick Allen <n...@nickallen.org>
