Sukhendu, I'm not sure how bad performance-wise this would be (depending on the size of the file you're reading), but you could try something like this:
hadoop fs -text <your file> | tail -n <number of lines> HTH, Minh On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Sukhendu Chakraborty < sukhendu.chakrabo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to get around the 1KB limitation of the hadoop fs -tail > command (http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r0.20.0/hdfs_shell.html#tail > )? > In my application some of the records can have length greater than 1KB > before the newline and I would like to get the full records as part of > 'tail' (not truncated versions). > > Thanks, > -Sukhendu >
