Check the process environment for your streaming tasks, generally the
configuration variables are exported into the process environment.

The Mapper input file is normally stored as some variant of
mapred.input.file. The reducer's input is the mapper output for that reduce,
so the input file is not relevant.

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 7:21 PM, C G <parallel...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi All:
> Is there any way using Hadoop Streaming to determining the directory from
> which an input record is being read?  This is straightforward in Hadoop
> using InputFormats, but I am curious if the same concept can be applied to
> streaming.
> The goal here is to read in data from 2 directories, say A/ and B/, and
> make decisions about what to do based on where the data is rooted.
> Thanks for any help...CG
>
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