Hive CLI '-e' & '-f' options not working

Question

I'm using Horton-works Hadoop solution and I'm unable to execute hive command line interface commands.

1. Using -e option, with command as follows

   C:\somepath\hive-0.11\bin>hive -e 'select * from sampletable'
   

   Here, I get the error

   'ParseException', cannot recognize input near '', '' in select clause.

2. Using -f option, with commands as follows

   C:\somepath\hive-0.11\bin>hive -f /user/myusername/sample.sql
   

   Here I get the error

   unable to read the file at specified location.

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Not quite sure what is going on in case 1). Maybe the windows shell expands things in a weird way? Try hive -e "select * from sampletable"

With your second one, I'm guessing you are passing in a hdfs path for some reason. This is most certainly not what you want, as it is looking for a file in your local file system. Where is it locally?:

hive -f C:\path\to\sample.sql