https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Unable-to-import-data-into-hbase-table-through-Importtsv/m-p/141651#M104244 <P>Hi <A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/11180/shree20in.html" nodeid="11180">@Sridharan Govindaraj</A>. Did running your command from Unix shell instead of HBase shell solve this issue? You might also want to fully qualify your hdfs file path:</P><PRE>$ hbase org.apache.hadoop.hbase.mapreduce.ImportTsv -Dimporttsv.separator="," -Dimporttsv.columns="HBASE_ROW_KEY,id,temp:in,temp:out,vibration,pressure:in,pressure:out" sensor hdfs:///user/hbase.csv</PRE> Fri, 29 Jul 2016 10:04:12 GMT emilysharpe 2016-07-29T10:04:12Z