Hi Mark, --escaped-by \/ (backslash - slash) tells bash to escape the next character. (if I understood you right)
- Alex On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Mark Roddy <markro...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm moving free form data out of a RDBMS that has a lot of \n, \r\n, > and \t characters. > > I used "--escaped-by \\" (extra \ cause of bash), but I'm a little > confused about what to do with this data now. I can't seem to find > any tools that will honor the '\' escape char. TextInputFormat does > not seem to. > > I'm working on replacing an existing in house tool w/sqoop that > replace newlines with the literal string '\n'. I'd be happy to do as > such but I don't see any way of doing so. > > I'm sure I'm not the first person to run into this so I appreciate any > suggestions. > > -Mark > -- Alexander Lorenz http://mapredit.blogspot.com
