Is there any way to get the column name along with the output while execute any query in Hive?

Question

In Hive, when we do a query (like: select * from employee), we do not get any column names in the output (like name, age, salary that we would get in R

Answer 1

To print header along with the output, the following hive conf property should be set to true before executing the query.

hive> set hive.cli.print.header=true;
hive> select * from table_name;

We can also use query like this, if we want to get result in file.

hive -e 'set hive.cli.print.header=true;select * from table_name;' > result.xls

Where table_name your table name