Naveen Gangam created HIVE-13688:
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Summary: Variable substitutions not working for shell commands in
beeline
Key: HIVE-13688
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-13688
Project: Hive
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Beeline
Affects Versions: 1.1.0
Reporter: Naveen Gangam
Assignee: Naveen Gangam
Appears that the variable substitutions work fine for DML and DDL commands.
> set hivevar:v1=databases;
No rows affected (0.004 seconds)
> show ${v1};
+----------------+--+
| database_name |
+----------------+--+
| default |
+----------------+--+
1 row selected (0.243 seconds)
> set hivevar:v1=tmp;
No rows affected (0.061 seconds)
> create table ${v1} (col1 string);
No rows affected (0.065 seconds)
> describe ${v1};
INFO : Compiling
command(queryId=hive_20160504105151_cb6ab7f1-26ac-4733-80ed-13a5134ba2b5):
describe tmp
INFO : Executing
command(queryId=hive_20160504105151_cb6ab7f1-26ac-4733-80ed-13a5134ba2b5):
describe tmp
+-----------+------------+----------+--+
| col_name | data_type | comment |
+-----------+------------+----------+--+
| col1 | string | |
+-----------+------------+----------+--+
1 row selected (0.121 seconds)
But it does not appear to work for shell commands (introduced in HIVE-6694 )
> !sh sudo -u hdfs hdfs dfs -mkdir /user/root/${v1}
mkdir: `/user/root/${v1}': No such file or directory <========== problem
Command failed with exit code = 1
> !sh echo ${v1};
${v1};
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