Mohit, HBase shell is a JRuby wrapper and as such has all functions available which are available using Java API.. So you can import the Bytes class and the do a Bytes.toString() similar to what you'd do in Java
Regards, Dhaval ________________________________ From: Mohit Anchlia <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, 20 July 2012 8:39 PM Subject: HBase shell Is there a command on the shell that convert byte into char array when using HBase shell command line? It's all in hex format hbase(main):004:0> scan 'SESSION_TIMELINE' ROW COLUMN+CELL \x00\x00\x00\x01\x7F\xFF\xE8\x034\x04\xCF\xFF column=S_T_MTX:\x07A\xB8\xB1, timestamp=1342826789668, value=Hello \x00\x00\x00\x01\x7F\xFF\xE81\xDC\xE4\x07\xFF column=S_T_MTX:\x04@\xBB\x94, timestamp=1342826589226, value=Hello \x00\x00\x00\x01\x7F\xFF\xFE\xC7Y\x09\xA2\x7F column=S_T_MTX:\x00\x00O?, timestamp=1342830980018, value=Hello \x00\x00\x00\x01\x7F\xFF\xFE\xC7Y\x1B\xF1\xFF column=S_T_MTX:\x00\x00\x82\x19, timestamp=1342829793047, value=Hello \x00\x00\x00\x01\x7F\xFF\xFE\xC7Y\x1C\xDC_ column=S_T_MTX:\x00\x00S&, timestamp=1342829721025, value=Hello \x00\x00\x00\x01\x7F\xFF\xFE\xC7Y\x1D\xC6\xBF column=S_T_MTX:\x00\x00\x8Az, timestamp=1342829675205, value=Hello \x00\x00\x00\x01\x7F\xFF\xFE\xC7Y \x85\xDF column=S_T_MTX:\x00\x00\x89\xDE, timestamp=1342829495072, value=Hello \x00\x00\x00\x01\x7F\xFF\xFE\xC7Y!p? column=S_T_MTX:\x00\x00b\xEA, timestamp=1342829425086, value=Hello
