Thanks @Naveen Your suggestion worked. At first, I wasn't sure about how to create the hql file. I ended up just using vi to create it with the "show partitions" statements. Also, in my environment, I don't need to provide the credentials. I'm not sure why. I just provided the jdbc string for the zk cluster like the following: beeline --silent=true --showHeader=false --outputformat=csv2 -u "jdbc:hive2://zk1:zkport,zk2:zkport,zk3:zkport/;serviceDiscoveryMode=zooKeeper;zooKeeperNamespace=hiveserver2" -f show_partitions_tables.hql > show_partitions_tables.txt Thanks for your help! ... View more

Thanks @Naveen I needed to generate a file show all of the partitions for several tables. I ended up using the following with hive. #!/home/user/ rm -f tables.txt rm -f partitions.txt echo " dbname.tablename1 dbname.tablename2 dbname.tablename3 dbname.tablename4 " >> tables.txt wait cat tables.txt |while read LINE do echo -e "$LINE\n" >> partitions.txt hive -e "show partitions $LINE" >>partitions.txt echo -e "\n" >> partitions.txt done rm -f tables.txt echo "Show Partitions generated" It seemed like hive didn't like something cause it threw a couple of errors at the beginning and end. But, ended up generating the desired output. I'd prefer to use beeline but couldn't figure out how to integrate the beeline -u connection with the looping through the list of tables. Can anyone suggest a similar approach using beeline? ... View more