I can only guess that pig.jar does not live in the directory you are running this command from. As you can see from the paste below, what you are doing should work assuming pig.jar exists.
dmitriy$ java -Xmx256m -cp pig.jar org.apache.pig.Main -x local 2010-12-05 11:34:49,776 [main] INFO org.apache.pig.Main - Logging error messages to: /Users/dmitriy/src/pig-0.8/pig_1291577689774.log 2010-12-05 11:34:50,134 [main] INFO org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.HExecutionEngine - Connecting to hadoop file system at: file:/// grunt> -Dmitriy P.S. Questions like this are better directed to the user list, not the dev list. On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 3:22 AM, hiba houimli <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > When I try to run the Pig Scripts in Local Mode and I Set the maximum > memory for Java: > java -Xmx256m -cp pig.jar org.apache.pig.Main -x local script1-local.pig > I have this problem Excetion in thread main jav.long.NOClassDefFoundError: > org/apache/pig/main > I need help please and thank you
