Try single quotes. The shell (ruby) may be trying to 'help you' by interpreting your hex.
hbase(main):018:0> print "\x20\n" hbase(main):019:0> print '\x20\n' \x20\nhbase(main):020:0> See how w/ double quotes it prints space and new line where when I single-quote it, it prints out the literal? At the end of the shell help it says: "If you are using binary keys or values and need to enter them in the shell, use double-quote'd hexadecimal representation. For example: hbase> get 't1', "key\x03\x3f\xcd" hbase> get 't1', "key\003\023\011" hbase> put 't1', "test\xef\xff", 'f1:', "\x01\x33\x40" ..." Looks like we need to add a line which says if you are using hex, to avoid ruby's interpreting your intent, single-quote. St.Ack On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 4:30 AM, Ding Haifeng <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, all. > > When I tried to do a manual region split from HBase shell, I found that > split command acts incorrectly with hex split keys. > > For example, I executed > > hbase(main):003:0> split 'tsdb', "\x00\x00\xC3" > > but table 'tsdb' actually split at "\x00\x00\xEF\xBF\xBD" > > I'm running Hbase 0.94.8, r1485407, both server-side and client-side. > > Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. > > > > -- > Ding Haifeng >
