I tried this in local mode, it works - http://hadoop.apache.org/pig/docs/r0.5.0/piglatin_reference.html#exec
$ cat s1.pig a = LOAD 'student' AS (name, age, gpa); b = ORDER a BY age; DUMP b; $ cat s.pig a = LOAD 'student' AS (name, age, gpa); b = LIMIT a 3; DUMP b; exec s1.pig $ pig -x local s.pig I can't find HOD configuration for cluster, hopefully you weren't planning on using HOD. 2010-02-11 09:47:45,708 [main] INFO org.apache.pig.Main - Logging error messages to: /homes/gankur/pig_1265881665706.log 2010-02-11 09:47:46,506 [main] WARN org.apache.pig.impl.io.FileLocalizer - FileLocalizer.create: failed to create /tmp/temp-1460326964 2010-02-11 09:47:46,545 [main] INFO org.apache.pig.backend.local.executionengine.LocalPigLauncher - Successfully stored result in: "file:/tmp/temp-1460326964/tmp-1949967585" 2010-02-11 09:47:46,546 [main] INFO org.apache.pig.backend.local.executionengine.LocalPigLauncher - Records written : 3 2010-02-11 09:47:46,546 [main] INFO org.apache.pig.backend.local.executionengine.LocalPigLauncher - Bytes written : 101 2010-02-11 09:47:46,546 [main] INFO org.apache.pig.backend.local.executionengine.LocalPigLauncher - 100% complete! 2010-02-11 09:47:46,546 [main] INFO org.apache.pig.backend.local.executionengine.LocalPigLauncher - Success!! (alice,20,2.47) (luke,18,4.00) (holly,24,3.27) 2010-02-11 09:47:46,625 [main] WARN org.apache.pig.impl.io.FileLocalizer - FileLocalizer.create: failed to create /tmp/temp-1460326964 2010-02-11 09:47:46,652 [main] INFO org.apache.pig.backend.local.executionengine.LocalPigLauncher - Successfully stored result in: "file:/tmp/temp-1460326964/tmp1891452502" 2010-02-11 09:47:46,652 [main] INFO org.apache.pig.backend.local.executionengine.LocalPigLauncher - Records written : 3 2010-02-11 09:47:46,652 [main] INFO org.apache.pig.backend.local.executionengine.LocalPigLauncher - Bytes written : 101 2010-02-11 09:47:46,652 [main] INFO org.apache.pig.backend.local.executionengine.LocalPigLauncher - 100% complete! 2010-02-11 09:47:46,653 [main] INFO org.apache.pig.backend.local.executionengine.LocalPigLauncher - Success!! (luke,18,4.00) (alice,20,2.47) (holly,24,3.27) -...@nkur On 2/10/10 10:38 AM, "Alan Gates" <[email protected]> wrote: You are not wrong. This is a feature we'd like to add but haven't gotten to yet. Alan. On Feb 9, 2010, at 8:12 PM, prasenjit mukherjee wrote: > May be I was not clear enough on my problem. I would like to call > another pig-script from a pig-script. How can I do that. > > As far as I understand, you can call a pig script from a unix-shell ( > or windows ) passing those parameters, but not from another pig-script > ? I would be glad to be proved wrong. I wish I am wrong :) > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 8:36 AM, zaki rahaman > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Prasen, >> >> If the only thing changing is the input and/or output, you can >> parametrize >> your script so that you can easily re-use your script with parameter >> substitution. >> >> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:49 PM, prasenjit mukherjee < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Is there a way to reuse a pig scripts ( like def:: in python or >>> function calls etc) from inside a calling pig script. I have a >>> set of >>> basic pig script which I would like to call from a high-level >>> pig-script. Currently I have to copy/paste exact same set of code >>> with >>> different input relation. This makes the code unnecessary bulky >>> and is >>> error prone. Even a macro def will be a great help. >>> >>> -Thanks, >>> Prasen >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Zaki Rahaman >>
