Try hive -e ‘desc temp_logs’ Whitout “;”
Best regards Ransom. 发件人: Abhishek Parolkar [mailto:abhis...@viki.com] 发送时间: 2012年2月20日 11:53 收件人: user@hive.apache.org 主题: Hive CLI (v0.8.1) -e option trowing parse error all the time Hi All: I am trying to get -e option in hive CLI work for me. Looks like it isn't straight forward. hadoopnode1:~ hadoop$ hive hive> desc temp_logs; OK log_time string namespace string json string ds string hour string Time taken: 2.832 seconds hive> exit; hadoopnode1:~ hadoop$ hive -e "desc temp_logs;" FAILED: Parse Error: line 1:0 cannot recognize input near 'desc' '<EOF>' '<EOF>' in describe statement What is -e expecting the query to be? -v_abhi_v