Creating hive table with columns from a text file - hadoop

Question

I am trying to create a table in Hive from a txt file using a shell script in this format.
My t_cols.txt has data as below:
id string, name string, city string, lpd timestamp
I want to create hive table whose columns should be coming from this text file.
This is how my shell script looks like:
table_cols=`cat t_cols.txt`
hive --hiveconf t_name=${table_cols} -e 'create table leap_frog_snapshot.LINKED_OBJ_TRACKING (\${hiveconf:t_name}) stored as orc tblproperties ("orc.compress"="SNAPPY");'
This is not working somehow.
I am getting the below error:
Logging initialized using configuration in file:/etc/hive/2.4.3.0-227/0/hive-log4j.properties
NoViableAltException(307#[])
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.type(HiveParser.java:38618)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.colType(HiveParser.java:38375)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.columnNameType(HiveParser.java:38059)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.columnNameTypeList(HiveParser.java:36183)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.createTableStatement(HiveParser.java:5222)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.ddlStatement(HiveParser.java:2648)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.execStatement(HiveParser.java:1658)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.statement(HiveParser.java:1117)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.ParseDriver.parse(ParseDriver.java:202)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.ParseDriver.parse(ParseDriver.java:166)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:432)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:316)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compileInternal(Driver.java:1202)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.runInternal(Driver.java:1250)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:1139)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:1129)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLocalCmd(CliDriver.java:216)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:168)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:379)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:314)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processReader(CliDriver.java:412)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processFile(CliDriver.java:428)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.executeDriver(CliDriver.java:717)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:684)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:624)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.run(RunJar.java:221)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:136)
FAILED: ParseException line 1:60 cannot recognize input near ')' 'stored' 'as' in column type
Am I missing something?
If this is not the right thing to do, what is the correct way to achieve this?

Answer 1

This is because cat is giving only first word before a space into the variable.
Following should work
#!/bin/bash
hive --hiveconf t_name="`cat t_cols.txt`" -e 'create table leap_frog_snapshot.LINKED_OBJ_TRACKING (${hiveconf:t_name}) stored as orc tblproperties ("orc.compress"="SNAPPY") ; '