CLASSPATH issue in Hadoop on Cygwin while running “hadoop version” command

Question

I have installed Hadoop version 2.1 beta from Apache on Windows using Cygwin terminal. Running the command hadoop version gets me this error :

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Answer 1

you can also add the following to your ~/.bashrc

export HADOOP_CLASSPATH=$(cygpath -pw $(hadoop classpath)):$HADOOP_CLASSPATH

this solved it for me