Inspect Parquet from command line

Question

How do I inspect the content of a Parquet file from the command line?

The only option I see now is

$ hadoop fs -get my-path local-file
$ parquet-tool         


        

Answer 1

If you're using HDFS, the following commands are very useful as they are frequently used (left here for future reference):

hadoop jar parquet-tools-1.9.0.jar schema hdfs://path/to/file.snappy.parquet
hadoop jar parquet-tools-1.9.0.jar head -n5 hdfs://path/to/file.snappy.parquet