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from pyspark import SparkContext
from pyspark import SparkFiles
finddistance = "/home/hadoop/examples_pyspark/finddistance.R"
finddistancename = "finddistance.R"
sc = SparkContext("local", "SparkFile App")
sc.addFile(finddistance)
print "Absolute Path -> %s" % SparkFiles.get(finddistancename)
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$SPARK_HOME/bin/spark-submit sparkfiles.py

Absolute Path -> 
   /tmp/spark-f1170149-af01-4620-9805-f61c85fecee4/userFiles-641dfd0f-240b-4264-a650-4e06e7a57839/finddistance.R