Hmmm, that doesn't seem to list the files in the directory.
On Jan 31, 2013, at 12:12 , Edward Capriolo wrote:
> Try
> describe extended <tablename>
> or
> describe extended <tablename> (<partition>)
>
> the location is one of the properties
>
> Edward
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Keith Wiley <kwi...@keithwiley.com> wrote:
>> "show tables" shows the HDFS directories which correspond to Hive tables and
>> various select queries show data from inside the files (each row of a file
>> being a row of the overarching table that the entire directory
>> represents)...or so I have convinced myself...but can Hive show the HDFS
>> filenames? Or is "hadoop fs -ls" the only way to do that?
>>
>> Thanks.
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