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Question

I am new to Scala and am trying to code read a file using the following code

scala> val textFile = sc.textFile(\"README.md\")
scala> textFile.count()
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Answer 1

You should run this code using ./spark-shell. It's scala repl with provided sparkContext. You can find it in your apache spark distribution in folder spark-1.4.1/bin.