Bash Magic: List Hive Table Sizes in GB

How to list the sizes of Hive tables in Hadoop in GBs.

Jakub Holý

Jan. 10, 13 · Tutorial

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To list the sizes of Hive tables in Hadoop in GBs:

sudo -u hdfs hadoop fs -du /user/hive/warehouse/ | awk '/^[0-9]+/ { print int($1/(1024**3)) " [GB]\t" $2 }'

Result:

448 [GB] hdfs://aewb-analytics-staging-name.example.com:8020/user/hive/warehouse/mybigtable
8 [GB]hdfs://aewb-analytics-staging-name.example.com:8020/user/hive/warehouse/anotherone
0 [GB]hdfs://aewb-analytics-staging-name.example.com:8020/user/hive/warehouse/tinyone

Database Bash (Unix shell)

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Bash Magic: List Hive Table Sizes in GB

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