Please check below command, here 2> /dev/null will consume all the logs and error. It will now allow standard output to be shown:  beeline -u jdbc:hive2://somehost_ip/ -f 2> /dev/null hive.hql >op.txt if you like this please give me kudos. Thanks!!!  ... View more

Hi @Big   I checked on our latest build and it works for me - see below. Are you sure that you're not trying to query a table with a DATE type column?   [localhost:21000] default> create table foo2 (`date` int); Query: create table foo2 (`date` int) +-------------------------+ | summary | +-------------------------+ | Table has been created. | +-------------------------+ Fetched 1 row(s) in 1.19s [localhost:21000] default> select distinct `date` from foo2; Query: select distinct `date` from foo2 Fetched 0 row(s) in 0.12s ... View more