hadoop/bin/hadoop-config.sh

# included in all the hadoop scripts with source command
# should not be executable directly
# also should not be passed any arguments, since we need original $*

# resolve links - $0 may be a softlink
bin=`dirname "$0"`
script=`basename "$0"`
bin=`cd "$bin"; pwd`
this="$bin/$script"
while [ -h "$this" ]; do
  ls=`ls -ld "$this"`
  link=`expr "$ls" : '.*-> \(.*\)$'`
  if expr "$link" : '.*/.*' > /dev/null; then
    this="$link"
  else
    this=`dirname "$this"`/"$link"
  fi
done

# the root of the Hadoop installation
export HADOOP_HOME=`dirname "$this"`/..

#check to see if the conf dir is given as an optional argument
if [ $# -gt 1 ]
then
    if [ "--config" = "$1" ]
	  then
	      shift
	      confdir=$1
	      shift
	      HADOOP_CONF_DIR=$confdir
    fi
fi
 
# Allow alternate conf dir location.
HADOOP_CONF_DIR="${HADOOP_CONF_DIR:-$HADOOP_HOME/conf}"