Running the available sample MapReduce programs is a simple task with YARN. The Hadoop version ships with some basic MapReduce examples. You can find them inside $HADOOP_HOME/share/Hadoop/mapreduce/Hadoop-mapreduce-examples-<HADOOP_VERSION>.jar. The location of the file may differ depending on your Hadoop installation folder structure.

Let's include this in the YARN_EXAMPLES path:

$exportYARN_EXAMPLES=$HADOOP_HOME/share/Hadoop/mapreduce

Now, we have all the sample examples in the YARN_EXAMPLES environmental variable. You can access all the examples using this variable; to list all the available examples, try typing the following command on the console:

$ yarn jar $YARN_EXAMPLES/hadoop-mapreduce-examples-2.4.0.2.1.1.0-385.jar

An example program must be given as the first argument.

The valid program names are as follows: