How to find the most recent partition in HIVE table

Question

I have a partitioned table - with 201 partitions. I need to find latest partition in this table and use it to post process my data. The query to find list of all partitions

Answer 1

if you know your table location in hdfs. This is the most quick way without even opening the hive shell.

You can check you table location in hdfs using command;

show create table 

then

hdfs dfs -ls | sort -k6,7 | tail -1

It will show latest partition location in hdfs