I was talking with a client earlier this week that is using the Hortonworks Sandbox to jumpstart his Hadoop learning (hey, that's exactly why we put it out there).
Thanks to all the Sandbox tutorials out there he already knew how to take a delimited file, get it into HDFS, use HCatalog to build a table, and then run Hive queries against it. What he didn't know how to do was to load up a good old-fashioned fixed-width formatted file into a table. My first hunch was to use a simple Pig script to convert it into a delimited file and I told him I'd pull together a simple set of instructions to help him with his Sandbox self-training. Robert, here ya go!!
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