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Use ";" (semicolon) to terminate commands. Comments in scripts can be specified using the "--" prefix.

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Command

Description

quit

Use quit or exit to come out of interactive shell.

set <key>=<value>

Use this to set value of particular configuration variable. One thing to note here is that if you misspell the variable name, cli will not show an error.

set

This will print list of configuration variables that overridden by user or hive.

set -v

This will give all possible hadoop/hive configuration variables.

add FILE <value> <value>*

Adds a file to the list of resources.

list FILE

list all the resources already added

list FILE <value>*

Check given resources are already added or not.

! <cmd>

execute a shell command from hive shell

dfs <dfs command>

execute dfs command command from hive shell

<query string>

executes hive query and prints results to stdout

Sample Usage:

Code Block
  hive> set  mapred.reduce.tasks=32;
  hive> set;
  hive> select a.* from tab1;
  hive> !ls;
  hive> dfs -ls;

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