Comments cannot be the first line of a file, if I recall correctly. The way 
that I put my name and email at the top is after a using statement for the 
database. 

use default;

-- John Doe, [email protected]
-- (c) Acme co 2007

Select * from (...)

Travis


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 -----Original Message-----
From:   Satoshi Yamada [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent:   Sunday, July 03, 2011 04:32 AM Pacific Standard Time
To:     [email protected]
Subject:        Re: comment out hive script file

Thanks, Edward, and sorry for late reply.
I want to add comment in the file using with "hive -f".
$ cat sample_select.hql
-- some commentSELECT something FROM sample_table;
$ hive -f sample_select.hql
Sample above does not work. Either "#" or "/* */" doesnot work.
So, is there no way to add comment in the file?
Thanks,satoshi
--- On Wed, 2011/6/29, Edward Capriolo <[email protected]> wrote:

There is a subtle nuance, comments can only appear before QL statements not set 
or add commands.

Edward

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Satoshi Yamada <[email protected]> 
wrote:


hi,
Is there any way to comment out hive script file?
Either "--" or "/* */" does not seem to work.
Thanks in advance,satoshi


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