Pig Running Scripts

Comments in Pig Script

Multi-line comments

/* These are the multi-line comments
  In the pig script */

Single –line comments

--we can write single line comments like this.

Executing Pig Script in Batch mode

Local mode MapReduce mode
$ pig -x local sample_script.pig $ pig -x mapreduce sample_script.pig 
grunt> exec /home/hadoop/pig/sample_script.pig

Executing a Pig Script from HDFS

$ hdfs dfs -put ~/pig/sample_script.pig hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/
$ pig -x mapreduce hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/sample_script.pig
student = LOAD 'hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/student_details.txt' USING PigStorage(',')
   as (id:int, firstname:chararray, lastname:chararray, age:int, phone:chararray, city:chararray);
student_order = ORDER student BY age DESC;
student_limit = LIMIT student_order 4;
Dump student_limit;

References