How to kill a scan operation in hbase shell without Ctrl-C
问题 Sometimes when I run a scan '<tablename> . I see a continuous flood of data being printed because the table is big. I want to kill the process that print the data. Is there a way to do it other than Ctrl-C ? because Ctrl-C kills the shell process and I don't want to exit the shell. 回答1: You could use scan with LIMIT to limit the scan output on shell : scan 'table', LIMIT => 5 This will show you only 5 rows. You could also press ctlr+s to hold the scan, if you have done a full scan and want to