You usually do not have the level of control necessary to do this in
tasks of the Pig jobs. What is your use-case?
Maybe, you could consider pig-streaming which will let you do this.
Or, as Richard pointed out you could use multi-query if it suffices.
Arun
On May 5, 2010, at 10:42 AM, Sandesh Devaraju wrote:
With Pig 0.6, as per
http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/current/mapred_tutorial.html#Task+Side-Effect+Files
, I was able to write to side-files. However, I am unable to find an
obvious way to accomplish this in Pig 0.7.
Thanks in advance!
- Sandesh
