Avoid line-wrapping in hbase shell output

Question

I have some long string data in an hbase column and I want to use linux tools like grep, cut, sort, etc on the output of a scan.

Unfortunately, the hbase shell is formatting the output of the scan into visual columns in my terminal. This is nice for human readability but less-so for scripting.

Sample output:

 00000000-1111-2222-3333-444444444444  column=a:1, timestamp=151974600000, value="some really 
                                       long data that doesn't fit onto the terminal in one lin
                                       e"

I tried redirecting the output to a file, but it looks like the column value is wrapped there too.

Is there a way to tell the hbase shell not to insert this whitespace/formatting into my string value?

Answer 1

Not sure i get the whole question , some thing you can try is

echo "scan 'my_table',{COLUMNS=>'A:my_long_column'}" | hbase shell | grep "something"..

like the grep operation , you can pass it through other unit commands or through awk/sed etc.