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Hitesh Shah commented on YARN-1303: ----------------------------------- [~xgong] Could you clarify why "ls;ls" or "ls | grep foo" does not work in the first place? Is there a bug in the implementation that needs to be fixed to address this basic functionality? > Allow multiple commands separating with ; > ----------------------------------------- > > Key: YARN-1303 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/YARN-1303 > Project: Hadoop YARN > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: applications/distributed-shell > Reporter: Tassapol Athiapinya > Assignee: Xuan Gong > Fix For: 2.2.1 > > Attachments: YARN-1303.1.patch, YARN-1303.2.patch > > > In shell, we can do "ls; ls" to run 2 commands at once. > In distributed shell, this is not working. We should improve to allow this to > occur. There are practical use cases that I know of to run multiple commands > or to set environment variables before a command. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1#6144)