How to convert sequence file into normal text file

2012-02-01 Thread praveenesh kumar
I am running SimpleKmeansClustering sample code from mahout in action. How can I convert sequence file written using SequenceFile.Writer into plain HDFS file so that I can read it properly. I know mahout has seqdumper tool to read it. But I want to create normal text file rather than sequence file

Re: How to convert sequence file into normal text file

2012-02-01 Thread Harsh J
Praveenesh, The utility hadoop fs -text seqfile, documented at http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/current/file_system_shell.html#text can read SequenceFiles and print their string representations out. Will this be of any help? Otherwise, you want to use a SequenceFile.Reader over your given

Re: How to convert sequence file into normal text file

2012-02-01 Thread praveenesh kumar
Cool. I used the 2nd method. Will look out for other 2 also. Thanks, Praveenesh On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Harsh J ha...@cloudera.com wrote: Praveenesh, The utility hadoop fs -text seqfile, documented at http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/current/file_system_shell.html#text can read