I use the following command to try to check the command options of beeline.
beeline --help It does display the help info, but after that it continue enter beeline. I think it should only display the help info and should not go into beeline. Is it expected behavior ? .... --truncateTable=[true/false] truncate table column when it exceeds length --delimiterForDSV=DELIMITER specify the delimiter for delimiter-separated values output format (default: |) --isolation=LEVEL set the transaction isolation level --nullemptystring=[true/false] set to true to get historic behavior of printing null as empty string --addlocaldriverjar=DRIVERJARNAME Add driver jar file in the beeline client side --addlocaldrivername=DRIVERNAME Add drvier name needs to be supported in the beeline client side --help display this message Beeline version 2.0.0-SNAPSHOT by Apache Hive beeline> -- Best Regards Jeff Zhang