You could try to remove the first line of a file before passing it on to hive. Something like `sed -i '1d' filename`.
Adriaan On 2011/09/27, at 01:58, Bradford Stephens wrote: > Any thoughts on this? > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Daniel Jue <[email protected]> wrote: >> Is there a way to have hive skip the first line of CSV loading (say, >> to skip column headers)? >> >> Or will this require a second stage with a transform, and >> a) a hard coded knowledge of what a header row might contain, or >> b) a sequence number column for skipping? >> >> >> Seems like this should be a pretty common need.
