We use Pig and AvroStorage [1] to do this.  It's a very small pig script,
something like:

register piggybank.jar
define AvroStorage o.a.p.pb.AvroStorage()
data = LOAD '$INFILE' using AvroStorage;
store data into '$OUTPUT' using PigStorage(',');

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-1748

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Bo Shi <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I've seen an example of taking a plain text file as an input to an
> AvroJob (using AvroUtf8InputFormat) but I haven't found anything about
> taking an Avro data file as input and producing a text-based file
> (CSV, say).  Any hints here?
>
> Thanks,
> Bo
>

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