Handy Mac OSX shortcuts to work with Terminal

Clean up the line: You can use Ctrl+U to clear up to the beginning.

Clean up the line: Ctrl+A Ctrl+K to wipe the current line in the terminal 

Cancel the current command/line: Ctrl+C.

Recall the deleted command: Ctrl+Y

Go at the beginning of the line: Ctrl+A

Go at the end of the line: Ctrl+E

Remove the forward words for example, if you are middle of the command: Ctrl+K

Remove characters on the left, until the beginning of the word: Ctrl+W

To clear your entire command prompt: Ctrl + L

Toggle between the start of line and current cursor position: Ctrl + XX

Source : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9679776/how-do-i-clear-delete-the-current-line-in-terminal

How to Remote Debug Standalone Hadoop

  When you run your map reduce applications you may have hiccups here and there and may need to have a look inside. If you need to remote debug rather going through logs and figuring out what went wrong following is the procedure.

I am using Intellij Idea as the IDE but for other IDE's process is similar.

1) In Intellij Idea go to Run > Edit Configuration and then click on "+" . And then add Remote for "Remote Debugging"

2) You will have following window after clicking on Remote. You can change the port you are using for remote debugging in this panel.

3) Open your Hadoop Root folder and navigate to etc/hadoop-env.sh in your editor. At the bottom of the file add the following line. (Make sure to have the port you given for IDE configuration as the address)

export HADOOP_OPTS="-agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=y,address=5005"

Now you can start hadoop in standalone mode and it will wait until you attach your IDE to debug process to resume.