Get output from scans in hbase shell

Question

Is there any way I can output the results from a scan in the hbase shell to a file? I\'m assuming this is easy but I haven\'t been able to find anything in the documentation

Answer 1

I know that this post is quite old but i was searching something about HBase myself and came across with it.

Well i don't know if this is the best way to do it, but you can definitely use the scripting option HBase gives you. Just open a shell (preferably go to the directory bin of HBase) and run

echo "scan 'foo'" | ./hbase shell > myText

where foo is the name of the table you want to scan. If you then open myText you will see the results in there. Hope i helped!