Hive 0.7.X and up supports using variables in queries. This is documented in the SVN tree.
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hive/trunk/docs/xdocs/language_manual/var_substitution.xml You still might need some scripting outside of hive still but in many cases this can get the job done. On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Tim Spence <yogi.wan.ken...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm wondering the same. I didn't notice it in the documentation for 0.7. > My (possibly silly) way of dealing with it is to write ruby scripts to > concatenate commands like > >> bin/hive -e "some statement" > > to a shell script, then execute the shell script. Parameterized scripting > would be so welcome right now. > Tim > > > > > On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Jonathan Bender <jonathan.ben...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Hey all, >> Just wondering if there is native support for input arguments on Hive >> scripts. >> eg. $ bin/hive -f script.q <arg1 arg2> >> Any documentation I could reference to look into this further? >> Cheers, >> Jon >
