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Command

Description

!<SQLLine command>

List of SQLLine commands available at http://sqlline.sourceforge.net/.

Example: !quit exits the beeline Beeline client.

Beeline Hive Commands

Hive specific commands (same as hive cli Hive CLI commands) can be run from beelineBeeline, when the hive jdbc Hive JDBC driver is used.

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

 

Command

Description

reset

Resets the configuration to the default values.

set <key>=<value>

Sets the value of a particular configuration variable (key).
Note: If you misspell the variable name, the CLI will not show an error.

set

Prints a list of configuration variables that are overridden by the user or Hive.

set -v

Prints all Hadoop and Hive configuration variables.

add FILE[S] <filepath> <filepath>*
add JAR[S] <filepath> <filepath>*
add ARCHIVE[S] <filepath> <filepath>*

Adds one or more files, jars, or archives to the list of resources in the distributed cache. See Hive Resources below for more information.

list FILE[S]
list JAR[S]
list ARCHIVE[S]

Lists the resources already added to the distributed cache. See Hive Resources below for more information. (As of Hive 0.14.0: HIVE-7592).

list FILE[S] <filepath>*
list JAR[S] <filepath>*
list ARCHIVE[S] <filepath>*

Checks whether the given resources are already added to the distributed cache or not. See Hive Resources below for more information.

delete FILE[S] <filepath>*
delete JAR[S] <filepath>*
delete ARCHIVE[S] <filepath>*

Removes the resource(s) from the distributed cache.

dfs <dfs command>

Executes a dfs command.

<query string>

Executes a Hive query and prints results to standard output.

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