Xuefu just fixed the AdminManual Configuration wiki<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/AdminManual+Configuration>, changing bin/hive -hiveconf ... to --hiveconf, so I grepped the wiki archive and found many more cases of single-dash hiveconf than double-dash:
> grep -i '\-\-hiveconf' * | wc 2 16 178 > grep -i '\-hiveconf' * | wc 24 282 4054 A bit of googling also showed both versions of the option. So two questions: 1. Should I change all cases of single-dash hiveconf to double-dash in the wiki? 2. Should a single-dash option be created to accommodate all the wrong information on the Internet and in books (including *Hadoop: The Definitive Guide* and chapters 9 & 12 of *Programming Hive*)? -- Lefty