There are two ways to run pig. The first way is by using pig.pl that can be found in the scripts directory of your deployment. Useing the script would require having Perl installed on your machine. You can use it by issueing the following command: pig.pl -cp pig.jar:HADOOPSITEPATH where HADOOPSITEPATH is the directory in which hadoop-site.xml file for your Hadoop cluster is located. Example: pig.pl -cp pig.jar:/hadoop/conf
The second way to do this is by using java directly: java -cp pig.jar:HADOOPSITEPATH org.apache.pig.Main
Regardless of how you invoke pig, the commands that you specified above will take to to an interactive shell called grunt where you can run DFS and Pig commands. The documentation about grunt will be posted on wiki soon. If you want to run Pig in batch mode, you can append your pig script to either of the commands above. Example: pig.pl -cp pig.jar:/hadoop/conf myscript.pig or java -cp pig.jar:/hadoop/conf myscript.pig.