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parquet-tools — Show, inspect, and manipulate Parquet file. More information: <https://github.com/apache/parquet-jav

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Problem

How to use the parquet-tools command: Show, inspect, and manipulate Parquet file. More information: <https://github.com/apache/parquet-java>.

Solution

parquet-tools — Show, inspect, and manipulate Parquet file. More information: <https://github.com/apache/parquet-java>.

Display the content of a Parquet file:

parquet-tools cat {{path/to/parquet}}

Display the first few lines of a Parquet file:

parquet-tools head {{path/to/parquet}}

Print the schema of a Parquet file:

parquet-tools schema {{path/to/parquet}}

Print the metadata of a Parquet file:

parquet-tools meta {{path/to/parquet}}

Print the content and metadata of a Parquet file:

parquet-tools dump {{path/to/parquet}}

Concatenate several Parquet files into the target one:

parquet-tools merge {{path/to/parquet1}} {{path/to/parquet2}} {{path/to/target_parquet}}

Print the count of rows in a Parquet file:

parquet-tools rowcount {{path/to/parquet}}

Print the column and offset indexes of a Parquet file:

parquet-tools column-index {{path/to/parquet}}

Code Snippets

Display the content of a Parquet file

parquet-tools cat {{path/to/parquet}}

Display the first few lines of a Parquet file

parquet-tools head {{path/to/parquet}}

Print the schema of a Parquet file

parquet-tools schema {{path/to/parquet}}

Print the metadata of a Parquet file

parquet-tools meta {{path/to/parquet}}

Print the content and metadata of a Parquet file

parquet-tools dump {{path/to/parquet}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/parquet-tools

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