[HADOOP-3498] File globbing alternation should be able to span path components

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.19.0
• Component/s: fs
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Release Note: Extended file globbing alternation to cross path components. For example, {/a/b,/c/d} expands to a path that matches the files /a/b and /c/d.
• Assignee: Thomas White
• Reporter: Thomas White
• Created: 05/Jun/08 18:00
• Updated: 21/Nov/08 02:38
• Resolved: 05/Sep/08 14:47

Description

For example,

{/a/b,/c/d} should expand to /a/b and /c/d. This change would also permit a consistent syntax for specifying multiple input paths to MapReduce, streaming and Pig by specification of a single glob path with alternation {/a/b,/c/d}

, rather than a collection of comma separated glob paths /a/b,/c/d.

This change would also make globbing more consistent with bash, which supports this feature.

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: PIG-252 Allow multiple paths in the load statement