You weren't setting the classpath. In Bash, you can't put a $ in front of the variable name when you're assigning it to a value.
-Dima On Wednesday, June 22, 2016, Mahesha999 <abnav...@gmail.com> wrote: > hey thanks. That worked. Seems that my lack of experience with Linux > causing > trouble. Can u tell me what was going? > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://apache-hbase.679495.n3.nabble.com/hbase-classpath-command-causes-File-name-too-long-error-tp4080706p4080814.html > Sent from the HBase User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >