Retrieving the results Look at our output dir -bash-4.2$ hadoop dfs -ls /user/hduser/gutenberg-output Found 3 items -rw-r--r-- 3 hduser supergroup 0 2012-08-09 11:57 /user/hduser/gutenberg-output/_SUCCESS drwxr-xr-x - hduser supergroup 0 2012-08-09 11:54 /user/hduser/gutenberg-output/_logs -rw-r--r-- 3 hduser supergroup 1412493 2012-08-09 11:57 /user/hduser/gutenberg-output/part-r-00000 We can view results directly from hdfs hadoop dfs -cat /user/hduser/gutenberg-output/part-r-00000 | more Or pull them out into our local filesystem hadoop dfs -getmerge /user/hduser/gutenberg-output gutenberg-output more gutenberg-output