On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Owen O'Malley <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Jul 8, 2009, at 3:13 PM, Pankil Doshi wrote: > > Can anyone guide me to merge my output files from reducer to single file >> in >> HDFS. >> > > The usual approach is to leave them as separate files. Also, the need to merge often arises from a need to import the data into an external database. That doesn't sound like your need because you already know and have rejected dfs -cat. It may help to think of the containing directory as the actual file and the files inside that directory as no more interesting than the inodes and blocks that make up a normal unix file.
