kmeans cli docs

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$ /opt/mahout-distribution-0.6/bin/mahout kmeans -h
MAHOUT_LOCAL is not set; adding HADOOP_CONF_DIR to classpath.
no HADOOP_HOME set, running locally
Class: org.apache.mahout.driver.MahoutDriver
Args: kmeans -h
SLF4J: Class path contains multiple SLF4J bindings.
SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/opt/mahout-distribution-0.6/mahout-examples-0.6-job.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/opt/mahout-distribution-0.6/lib/slf4j-jcl-1.6.1.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/opt/mahout-distribution-0.6/lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.6.1.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#multiple_bindings for an explanation.
usage: <command> [Generic Options] [Job-Specific Options]
Generic Options:
 -archives <paths>              comma separated archives to be unarchived
                                on the compute machines.
 -conf <configuration file>     specify an application configuration file
 -D <property=value>            use value for given property
 -files <paths>                 comma separated files to be copied to the
                                map reduce cluster
 -fs <local|namenode:port>      specify a namenode
 -jt <local|jobtracker:port>    specify a job tracker
 -libjars <paths>               comma separated jar files to include in
                                the classpath.
 -tokenCacheFile <tokensFile>   name of the file with the tokens
Job-Specific Options:                                                           
  --input (-i) input                           Path to job input directory.     
  --output (-o) output                         The directory pathname for       
                                               output.                          
  --distanceMeasure (-dm) distanceMeasure      The classname of the             
                                               DistanceMeasure. Default is      
                                               SquaredEuclidean                 
  --clusters (-c) clusters                     The input centroids, as Vectors. 
                                               Must be a SequenceFile of        
                                               Writable, Cluster/Canopy.  If k  
                                               is also specified, then a random 
                                               set of vectors will be selected  
                                               and written out to this path     
                                               first                            
  --numClusters (-k) k                         The k in k-Means.  If specified, 
                                               then a random selection of k     
                                               Vectors will be chosen as the    
                                               Centroid and written to the      
                                               clusters input path.             
  --convergenceDelta (-cd) convergenceDelta    The convergence delta value.     
                                               Default is 0.5                   
  --maxIter (-x) maxIter                       The maximum number of            
                                               iterations.                      
  --overwrite (-ow)                            If present, overwrite the output 
                                               directory before running job     
  --clustering (-cl)                           If present, run clustering after 
                                               the iterations have taken place  
  --method (-xm) method                        The execution method to use:     
                                               sequential or mapreduce. Default 
                                               is mapreduce                     
  --help (-h)                                  Print out help                   
  --tempDir tempDir                            Intermediate output directory    
  --startPhase startPhase                      First phase to run               
  --endPhase endPhase                          Last phase to run                
Specify HDFS directories while running on hadoop; else specify local file       
system directories                                                              
12/05/25 10:28:19 INFO driver.MahoutDriver: Program took 939 ms (Minutes: 0.01565)