Re: skip setting output path for a sequential MR job..

[some speed <sp...@gmail.com>]

Removing the file programatically is doing the trick for me. thank you all
for your answers and help :-)

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:25 AM, some speed <sp...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> Is it necessary to redirect the ouput of reduce to a file? When I am trying
> to run the same M-R job more than once, it throws an error that the output
> file already exists. I dont want to use command line args so I hard coded
> the file name into the program.
>
> So, Is there a way , I could delete a file on HDFS programatically?
> or can i skip setting a output file path n just have my output print to
> console?
> or can I just append to an existing file?
>
>
> Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
>
> -Sharath
>