https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/quot-bad-substitution-quot-error-running-Spark-on-Yarn/m-p/135401#M98060 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/3556/jschivers.html" nodeid="3556">@Jerrell Schivers</A></P><P>I observed similar issue with ${hdp.version} variable and getting same error message "bad substitution". I hard coded the version Number in Configuration files and running jobs.</P> Sat, 19 Mar 2016 06:45:30 GMT divakarreddy_a 2016-03-19T06:45:30Z