When you say position y, what do you mean? IE, do you mean that you have 10000 records, and want records 1000 to 1010? ie y=1000 and x=10? Or something else?
Keep in mind that unless there is a key to sort on, this is not a terribly parallel process. 2011/12/2 Jie Li <[email protected]> > I think you can use LIMIT operator, for example, > > tmp = FOREACH input GENERATE $y; > output = LIMIT tmp x; > > Jie > > On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Geert Van Landeghem <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > how to fetch x records at position y in a file with pig? > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > -- > > * > > kind regards, > > > > Van Landeghem Geert* > > Managing Director > > Foundation.be > > > > Hoekskensweg 12, 9290 Berlare > > btw: BE 0872.859.349 > > gsm: +32 477 759533 > > web1: http://www.foundation.be > > web2: http://www.relacss.com > > >
