Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-hadoop-common-user-archive@www.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-hadoop-common-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EB55D7265 for ; Sun, 2 Oct 2011 04:38:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 99376 invoked by uid 500); 2 Oct 2011 04:38:31 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-hadoop-common-user-archive@hadoop.apache.org Received: (qmail 99268 invoked by uid 500); 2 Oct 2011 04:38:29 -0000 Mailing-List: contact common-user-help@hadoop.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list common-user@hadoop.apache.org Received: (qmail 99252 invoked by uid 99); 2 Oct 2011 04:38:29 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Sun, 02 Oct 2011 04:38:29 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.9 required=5.0 tests=HTML_MESSAGE,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: neutral (athena.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [65.55.90.228] (HELO snt0-omc4-s25.snt0.hotmail.com) (65.55.90.228) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Sun, 02 Oct 2011 04:38:20 +0000 Received: from SNT113-W38 ([65.55.90.199]) by snt0-omc4-s25.snt0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Sat, 1 Oct 2011 21:37:58 -0700 Message-ID: X-Message-Routing: QnP77rBC18BTqDG5auZVIFk4hu61lCRKgtclzzrW2qR/8tk0htJNPYKN4eyEG0um6HAzn4w7UNcohvRvR1SPvojhbJaKPN65KRWDiRPyh+JNM66spod2VN2hz2OkpIIanaTQRo4vM4XR2bkg= Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_e15621b7-4537-42c3-82ea-72a61ee8aede_" X-Originating-IP: [64.134.24.19] From: Daniel Yehdego To: Subject: Hadoop Streaming Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2011 04:37:57 +0000 Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Oct 2011 04:37:58.0206 (UTC) FILETIME=[0F6085E0:01CC80BD] --_e15621b7-4537-42c3-82ea-72a61ee8aede_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi all=2C=20 I am using hadoop streaming and I want to use a secondary sort so that I wi= ll output my values in order. Can i use stream.num.map.input.key.fields ins= tead of stream.num.map.output.key.fields ? I am doing this because the outp= ut from the mapper is just a string of letters and its difficult to use the= keys to compare. Regards=2C=20 = --_e15621b7-4537-42c3-82ea-72a61ee8aede_--