Top?  You mean those that sort first?  You could start a scan in the
shell at a particular row and then limit the return:

hbase> scan 'TABLENAME', {STARTROW => 'xyz', LIMIT => 10}

Run 'help' to see more on the scan command.

St.Ack

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Mark Kerzner <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there a way to get "top ... rows" from a table using the shell, or rows
> for a range of keys?
>
> Thank you,
> Mark
>

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