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From: Harsh J <harsh@cloudera.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 19:56:36 +0530
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Subject: Re: Referencing files in job file from code
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Hi Bai,

What exactly do you mean by a 'job file' and have you considered using
DistributedCache, as detailed at
http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/stable/mapred_tutorial.html#DistributedCache?

On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Bai Shen <baishen.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to reference a directory inside my job file from my code.  I
> have a third party library that I need to pass a File object to which
> references the directory in the job file.
>
> How do I go about doing this?  If I just do new File("dir") it looks for
> the directory on the client machine that I'm calling the job from instead
> of the directory in the actual job file itself.
>
> Thanks.


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Harsh J