https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Query-on-Hive-Commands-Beeline/m-p/160178#M122563 <P>I use -u and -e</P><P>here is example</P><PRE>[hive@sunman1 ~]$ beeline -u jdbc:hive2://localhost:10000 -n hive -e 'show tables' Connecting to jdbc:hive2://localhost:10000 Connected to: Apache Hive (version 1.2.1000.2.5.0.0-1245) Driver: Hive JDBC (version 1.2.1000.2.5.0.0-1245) Transaction isolation: TRANSACTION_REPEATABLE_READ +-----------+--+ | tab_name | +-----------+--+ | airline1 | +-----------+--+ 1 row selected (0.215 seconds) Beeline version 1.2.1000.2.5.0.0-1245 by Apache Hive Closing: 0: jdbc:hive2://localhost:10000 [hive@sunman1 ~]$ </PRE> Fri, 04 Nov 2016 09:21:27 GMT sunile_manjee 2016-11-04T09:21:27Z