Oops, that line had some boldface, which resulting in some "*" in the command line. Here is the correct command line:
java -jar avro-tools.jar --schema-file someschema.avsc --count 1 - > blah.avro On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 9:18 PM, Rob Torop <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd been having trouble using avro-tools generating a random avro file > based on a schema. I finally realized that it assumes that it's going to > write the result to hdfs. So I was trying this > > java -jar avro-tools.jar --schema-file someschema.avsc --count 1 > blah.avro > > and getting an error. I found that it supports the unix convention of > using - (minus sign) as stdout, so this worked: > > java -jar avro-tools.jar --schema-file someschema.avsc --count 1 *- > > * blah.avro > > I'm just making a note of it in case anyone encounters the same problem. > -- Sent using my Mnemonic Memory Circuit
