title: How to convert .txt file to Hadoop's sequence file format
body: <p>To effectively utilise map-reduce jobs in <a href="http://hadoop.apache.org/" rel="noreferrer">Hadoop</a>, i need data to be stored in <a href="http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/current/api/org/apache/hadoop/io/SequenceFile.html" rel="noreferrer">hadoop's sequence file format</a>. However,currently the data is only in flat .txt format.Can anyone suggest a way i can convert a .txt file to a sequence file?</p>