[ACCUMULO-1116] Unable to scan for row keys that start with a quote in accumulo shell

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Mike Hugo
• Created: 26/Feb/13 20:33
• Updated: 26/Feb/13 20:39

Description

In the accumulo shell you cannot scan for a row that has a literal quote in the key, e.g.

"foo"

Trying the following:

scan -b "foo
scan -b \"foo

will not return any results.

It is possible to do this via the Java API, but not from the shell.