Coincidentally I'm aware of the AWS::S3 package in Ruby but I'd prefer to
avoid that...
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 5:02 PM, S D <sd.codewarr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm at my wit's end. I want to do a simple test for the existence of a file
> on Hadoop. Here is the Ruby code I'm trying:
>
> val = `hadoop dfs -test -e s3n://holeinthebucket/user/hadoop/file.txt`
> puts "Val: #{val}"
> if val == 1
> // do one thing
> else
> // do another
> end
>
> I never get a return value for the -test command. Is there something I'm
> missing? How should the return value be retrieved?
>
> Thanks,
> SD
>
