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

I'd rather use hdfs NFS Gateway + autofs for easy hdfs file investigation.

My setup:

• HDFS NFS Gateway service running on namenode.
• distribution bundled autofs service on. with following configuration change made to auto.master

/net    -hosts nobind

I can easily run following command to investigate any hdfs file

head /net//path/to/hdfs/file
parquet-tools head /net//path/to/hdfs/par-file
rsync -rv /local/directory/ /net//path/to/hdfs/parentdir/

forget about the hadoop* hdfs* command ;)