Try putting a back-slash in front of the ‘*’ this usually works for command line issues when using a ‘*’
sqlline -u ... -q 'SELECT \* FROM dfs.`/path/to/files/file.csv` LIMIT 10’ Cheers — Chris > On 26 Jan 2016, at 18:56, Matt <[email protected]> wrote: > > sqlline -u ... -q 'SELECT * FROM dfs.`/path/to/files/file.csv` LIMIT 10' > seems to emit a list of files in the local path (pwd), along with a parsing > error. > > Putting the query in a file and passing that file name to sqlline or using an > explicit column list runs the query as expected. > > Is this a sqlline issue, or my improper use of it (quoting) ? > >
