The behavior is consistent with what you are observing. For example, I'll take a textbook for pigs .
The following command does not lead to any activity using pig .
raw = LOAD 'excite.log' USING PigStorage('\t') AS (user, time, query);
But if you invoke a command that uses the data from the raw variable, using some map thats abbreviations when you see some action in your command shell. Something like the second command that is mentioned there.
clean1 = FILTER raw BY org.apache.pig.tutorial.NonURLDetector(query);
Similarly, your command will not lead to any actions, you should use the data from variable A , which leads to the map-reduce command to see some action in the command shell:
grunt> A = load 'passwd' using PigStorage(':');
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