On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 3:23 AM, Keith Wiley <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there a particularly good reason for why the "hadoop fs" command supports > -cat and -tail, but not -head? > > ________________________________________________________________________________ > Keith Wiley [email protected] keithwiley.com > music.keithwiley.com > > "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with > sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." > -- Galileo Galilei > ________________________________________________________________________________ > >
Tail is needed to be done efficiently but head you can just do yourself. Most people probably use hadoop dfs -cat file | head -5.
