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Hbase complete list of columns in column family

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Expert Contributor

How do we get the complete list of columns that exist in a column Family?

Let us assume i have 5 columns for personal data column familyand 4 columns are present for professional data column family

create 'emp', 'personal data', ’professional data’
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Super Guru

HBase does not explicitly track the qualifiers that exist in each family. You either need to maintain this information yourself (e.g. in another table) or scan the data.

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Super Guru

HBase does not explicitly track the qualifiers that exist in each family. You either need to maintain this information yourself (e.g. in another table) or scan the data.

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Expert Contributor

Hi @Josh Elser.

I got the answer by unix command as mentiond below.

Command:-

echo "scan 'emp" | $HBASE_HOME/bin/hbase shell | awk -F'=' '{print $2}' | awk -F ':' '{print $2}'|awk -F ',' '{print $1}' 

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@vamsi valiveti

Thanks, Worked for me!

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Rising Star

how did you run the script? it didn't return me any result. can your share your's?

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echo "scan 'emp'" | $HBASE_HOME/bin/hbase shell | awk -F'=' '{print $2}' | awk -F ':' '{print $2}'|awk -F ',' '{print $1}'