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Command Line Interface

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The HCatalog command line interface (CLI) can be invoked as HIVE_HOME=hive_home hcat_home/bin/hcat where hive_home is the directory where Hive has been installed and hcat_home is the directory where HCatalog has been installed.

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Option

Usage

Description

-g

hcat -g mygroup ...

Tells HCatalog that the table which needs to be created must have group "mygroup".

-p

hcat -p rwxr-xr-x ...

Tells HCatalog that the table which needs to be created must have permissions "rwxr-xr-x".

-f

hcat -f myscript.hcatalog ...

Tells HCatalog that myscript.hcatalog is a file containing DDL commands to execute.

-e

hcat -e 'create table mytable(a int);' ...

Tells HCatalog to treat the following string as a DDL command and execute it.

-D

hcat -Dkey=value ...

Passes the key-value pair to HCatalog as a Java System Property.

 

hcat

Prints a usage message.

Note the following:

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Hive command line interface: Hive CLI
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