[HBASE-3539] Improve shell help to reflect all possible options

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.90.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.90.3
• Component/s: shell
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Harsh J
• Reporter: Lars George
• Created: 16/Feb/11 14:40
• Updated: 20/Nov/15 12:40
• Resolved: 25/Apr/11 17:34

Description

The shell is not consistent in its help texts. For example:

Scan a table; pass table name and optionally a dictionary of scanner
specifications.  Scanner specifications may include one or more of
the following: LIMIT, STARTROW, STOPROW, TIMESTAMP, or COLUMNS.  If
no columns are specified, all columns will be scanned.

but in the code you have

 filter = args["FILTER"]
 startrow = args["STARTROW"] || ''
 stoprow = args["STOPROW"]
 timestamp = args["TIMESTAMP"]
 columns = args["COLUMNS"] || args["COLUMN"] || get_all_columns
 cache = args["CACHE_BLOCKS"] || true
 versions = args["VERSIONS"] || 1

VERSIONS is missing from the help.

Check all commands and make sure all options are stated and examples given.