I couldn&#39;t get this to work either, so I started writing commands to a file and running: flume shell -c {master} -s {file}.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Bharath Ravi <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:bharathravi1@gmail.com">bharathravi1@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>The <a href="http://archive.cloudera.com/cdh/3/flume/UserGuide/#_using_the_flume_command_shell" target="_blank">user guide</a> says it is possible to pipe stdin into flume shell.</div>
<div>This does not work for me. Manually logging into the shell and running the same commands works perfectly fine.</div>

<div>Any pointers as to what might be going wrong? <span style="line-height:1.8">Here&#39;s a command I tried with its output:</span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><font face="&#39;courier new&#39;, monospace"># echo &quot;connect <a href="http://fm-vm-010.cercs.int" target="_blank">fm-vm-010.cercs.int</a>\nexec unconfig <a href="http://fm-vm-011.cercs.int" target="_blank">fm-vm-011.cercs.int</a>&quot; | ./bin/flume shell</font></div>


<div><font face="&#39;courier new&#39;, monospace">2012-03-19 16:31:05,768 [main] INFO conf.FlumeConfiguration: Loading configurations from conf</font></div><div><font face="&#39;courier new&#39;, monospace">==================================================</font></div>


<div><font face="&#39;courier new&#39;, monospace">FlumeShell v0.9.4</font></div><div><font face="&#39;courier new&#39;, monospace">Copyright (c) Cloudera 2010, All Rights Reserved</font></div><div><font face="&#39;courier new&#39;, monospace">==================================================</font></div>


<div><font face="&#39;courier new&#39;, monospace">Type a command to execute (hint: many commands</font></div><div><font face="&#39;courier new&#39;, monospace">only work when you are connected to a master node)</font></div>


<div><font face="&#39;courier new&#39;, monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="&#39;courier new&#39;, monospace">You may connect to a master node by typing: </font></div><div><font face="&#39;courier new&#39;, monospace">    connect host[:adminport=35873[:reportport=45678]]</font></div>


<div><font face="&#39;courier new&#39;, monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="&#39;courier new&#39;, monospace">[flume (disconnected)] connect <a href="http://fm-vm-010.cercs.int" target="_blank">fm-vm-010.cercs.int</a>\nexec unconfig <a href="http://fm-vm-011.cercs.int" target="_blank">fm-vm-011.cercs.int</a></font></div>


<div><font face="&#39;courier new&#39;, monospace">Failed to run command &#39;connect <a href="http://fm-vm-010.cercs.int" target="_blank">fm-vm-010.cercs.int</a>\nexec unconfig <a href="http://fm-vm-011.cercs.int" target="_blank">fm-vm-011.cercs.int</a>&#39; due to null</font></div>


<div><font face="&#39;courier new&#39;, monospace">2012-03-19 16:31:06,149 [main] ERROR util.FlumeShell: Failed to run command &#39;connect <a href="http://fm-vm-010.cercs.int" target="_blank">fm-vm-010.cercs.int</a>\nexec unconfig <a href="http://fm-vm-011.cercs.int" target="_blank">fm-vm-011.cercs.int</a>&#39;</font></div>


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