[ACCUMULO-2929] Cannot interact with columns containing colon in shell

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 1.5.1, 1.6.0
• Component/s: shell
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Josh Elser
• Created: 19/Jun/14 21:34
• Updated: 06/Aug/21 20:40
• Resolved: 06/Aug/21 20:40

Description

For context: see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24295183/is-there-a-way-to-pass-a-column-family-containing-colons-to-the-shells-scan-com

For commands that have a -c option (e.g. InsertCommand, GrepCommand, ScanCommand), there is currently no way to specify a column family that contains a colon as it is interpreted as the delimiter between the column family and column qualifier 'cf[:cq]'.

It would be very simple to support a basic escape '\' character that would allow users to use column families which contain colons in the shell.

For example, to scan for the Key with a row of foo, a column family of person:information, and a column qualifier of name, I should be able to submit the following in the shell:

user@instance> scan -r foo -c person\:information:name
foo person:information:name [] Josh