Try describe extended <tablename> or describe extended <tablename> (<partition>)
the location is one of the properties Edward On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Keith Wiley <kwi...@keithwiley.com> wrote: > "show tables" shows the HDFS directories which correspond to Hive tables and > various select queries show data from inside the files (each row of a file > being a row of the overarching table that the entire directory > represents)...or so I have convinced myself...but can Hive show the HDFS > filenames? Or is "hadoop fs -ls" the only way to do that? > > Thanks. > > ________________________________________________________________________________ > Keith Wiley kwi...@keithwiley.com keithwiley.com > music.keithwiley.com > > "The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches > me to suspect that my own is also." > -- Mark Twain > ________________________________________________________________________________ >
