Hi,
   I have written to a sideeffect file using SequenceFile.Writer  . But when
I cat the file, it is printing some unreadable characters . I did not use
any compression code.
Why is this so?
Thanks,
Ringa.

The SequenceFile is not text file, so you can not see the content by
invoking unix command cat.
But you can get the text content by using hadoop command : hadoop fs -text
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On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Andiana Squazo Ringa <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
>   I have written to a sideeffect file using SequenceFile.Writer  . But when
> I cat the file, it is printing some unreadable characters . I did not use
> any compression code.
> Why is this so?
> Thanks,
> Ringa.
>

--
Best Regards

Jeff Zhang

Thanks a lot Jeff.

Ringa.
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Jeff Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> The SequenceFile is not text file, so you can not see the content by
> invoking unix command cat.
> But you can get the text content by using hadoop command : hadoop fs -text
> <src>
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Andiana Squazo Ringa <
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >   I have written to a sideeffect file using SequenceFile.Writer  . But
> when
> > I cat the file, it is printing some unreadable characters . I did not use
> > any compression code.
> > Why is this so?
> > Thanks,
> > Ringa.
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Best Regards
>
> Jeff Zhang
>