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Posted: **Wed May 16, 2012 3:46 am**

I am trying to run the grep command in an external filter stage.

grep -v "abc"

But I get an error saying

Field X is null but no null export handling is defined

Didn't know we had to handle nulls here too. How do I do this?

Posted: **Wed May 16, 2012 12:56 pm**

In Format Tab Set NullField Value = ''

Posted: **Wed May 16, 2012 9:06 pm**

Are you sure that an external filter stage has a format tab? Because I don't see it. Guess you confused it with a sequential file stage

Posted: **Thu May 17, 2012 9:14 am**

Can you edit row metadata ? There you can set null field value

Posted: **Thu May 17, 2012 9:38 am**

rameshrr3 wrote:Can you edit row metadata ? There you can set null field value

No

No NULL Export Handling Error in External Filter Stage