Hi Suhas, I'm not sure about cygwin, but native windows support for Sqoop is on the way (covered by SQOOP-957 [1]).
Jarcec Links: 1: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SQOOP-957 On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 05:01:36PM -0700, Suhas Satish wrote: > Is there any plan to support bin/sqoop > and bin/configure-sqoop scripts to support running on windows (cygwin) > platforms? > > The change I foresee is simple enough to export classpath and other > environment variables using a conditional flag switch like follows - > > # cygwin path translation > if $cygwin; then > CLASSPATH=`cygpath -p -w "$CLASSPATH"` > fi > > > I see the sqoop release documentation mentioning as follows - > This document assumes you are using a Linux or Linux-like environment. If > you are using Windows, you may be able to use cygwin to accomplish most of > the following tasks. If you are using Mac OS X, you should see few (if any) > compatibility errors. Sqoop is predominantly operated and tested on Linux. > > > Are there any other considerations which I'm overlooking? > > The reason I ask is because I think that sqoop jar is not added to > HADOOP_CLASSPATH correctly while running on windows. bin/configure-sqoop > which does the environment variable export maybe the culprit. > > Thanks, > Suhas.
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