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

Hive does support writing to the local directory. You syntax looks right for it as well.
Check out the docs on SELECTS and FILTERS for additional information.

I don't think Hive has a way to write the names of the columns to a file for the query you're running . . . I can't say for sure it doesn't, but I do not know of a way.

I think the only place better than SO for Hive questions would be the mailing list.