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-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-#
-# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-#
-
-SCALA_VERSION=2.10
-
-FWDIR="$(cd `dirname $0`/..; pwd)"
-export SPARK_HOME="$FWDIR"
-EXAMPLES_DIR="$FWDIR"/examples
-
-if [ -n "$1" ]; then
-  EXAMPLE_CLASS="$1"
-  shift
-else
-  echo "Usage: ./bin/run-example <example-class> [example-args]"
-  echo "  - set MASTER=XX to use a specific master"
-  echo "  - can use abbreviated example class name (e.g. SparkPi, mllib.LinearRegression)"
-  exit 1
-fi
-
-if [ -f "$FWDIR/RELEASE" ]; then
-  export SPARK_EXAMPLES_JAR=`ls "$FWDIR"/lib/spark-examples-*hadoop*.jar`
-elif [ -e "$EXAMPLES_DIR"/target/scala-$SCALA_VERSION/spark-examples-*hadoop*.jar ]; then
-  export SPARK_EXAMPLES_JAR=`ls "$EXAMPLES_DIR"/target/scala-$SCALA_VERSION/spark-examples-*hadoop*.jar`
-fi
-
-if [[ -z $SPARK_EXAMPLES_JAR ]]; then
-  echo "Failed to find Spark examples assembly in $FWDIR/lib or $FWDIR/examples/target" >&2
-  echo "You need to build Spark before running this program" >&2
-  exit 1
-fi
-
-EXAMPLE_MASTER=${MASTER:-"local[*]"}
-
-if [[ ! $EXAMPLE_CLASS == org.apache.spark.examples* ]]; then
-  EXAMPLE_CLASS="org.apache.spark.examples.$EXAMPLE_CLASS"
-fi
-
-./bin/spark-submit \
-  --master $EXAMPLE_MASTER \
-  --class $EXAMPLE_CLASS \
-  "$SPARK_EXAMPLES_JAR" \
-  "$@"