Hive: writing column headers to local file?

Question

Hive documentation lacking again:

I\'d like to write the results of a query to a local file as well as the names of the columns.

Does Hive support this?

Answer 1

Yes you can. Put the set hive.cli.print.header=true; in a .hiverc file in your main directory or any of the other hive user properties files.

Vague Warning: be careful, since this has crashed queries of mine in the past (but I can't remember the reason).