It might depend on how shell process the quotes. For me, empty string does not work, but \"\" works.
Daniel On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Ashutosh Chauhan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Marek, > > /pig/bin/pig -param rootPath="" MapProfile.pig > > should work if you are trying to pass empty strings. Can you paste your pig > query and the error log that you are getting? > > Ashutosh > > On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 03:12, Marek Miglinski <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hey to everyone! >> >> I've encountered with a problem when I need to pass null or empty -param to >> pig, but I can't figure out how could it be done? >> >> Following does not work: >> /pig/bin/pig -param rootPath= MapProfile.pig >> /pig/bin/pig -param rootPath='' MapProfile.pig >> /pig/bin/pig -param rootPath="" MapProfile.pig >> /pig/bin/pig -param rootPath=null MapProfile.pig >> >> >> Thank you for your help. >> >
