Hi Ravi, For this case, you could simply do sc.parallelize([rdd.first()]).saveAsTextFile(“hdfs:///my_file”) using pyspark or sc.parallelize(Array(rdd.first())).saveAsTextFile(“hdfs:///my_file”) using Scala
Chris > On Jun 22, 2015, at 5:53 PM, ddpis...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hi Chris, > Thanks for the quick reply and the welcome. I am trying to read a file from > hdfs and then writing back just the first line to hdfs. > > I calling first() on the RDD to get the first line. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jun 22, 2015, at 7:42 PM, Chris Gore <cdg...@cdgore.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Ravi, >> >> Welcome, you probably want RDD.saveAsTextFile(“hdfs:///my_file”) >> >> Chris >> >>> On Jun 22, 2015, at 5:28 PM, ravi tella <ddpis...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Hello All, >>> I am new to Spark. I have a very basic question.How do I write the output >>> of an action on a RDD to HDFS? >>> >>> Thanks in advance for the help. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Ravi >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@spark.apache.org