Apache pig on windows gives “hadoop-config.cmd' is not recognized as an internal or external command” error when running “pig -x local”

Question

If you are stuck at running Apache Pig on windows due to an error like

hadoop-2.4.0\bin\hadoop-config.cmd' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file.

though you are having Hadoop running perfectly on windows

Answer 1

Answer, which was originally added by the asker inside the quesiton.

These steps may help you.

Troubleshooting steps

• open the file pig.cmd in any editor like notpad / notepad++
• look for the line set HADOOP_BIN_PATH=%HADOOP_HOME%\\bin
• replace this with set HADOOP_BIN_PATH=%HADOOP_HOME%\\libexec

What we did was that hadoop-config.cmd file was not being found by pig so we pointed it with the correct one. You may first find where the hadoop-config.cmd file is and replace it with appropriate path. This was what my hadoop-2.4.0 was having.