The Hue Shell application provides access to the Pig and HBase command-line shells. The Shell application is designed to have the same look and feel as a Unix terminal. In addition to the shells configured by default, it is possible to include almost any process that exposes a command-line interface as an option in this Hue application.
Hue Shell is one of the applications that is installed as part of Hue. For more information about installing Hue, see Hue Installation.
To properly isolate subprocesses so as to guarantee security, each Hue user who is using the Shell subprocess must have a Unix user account. The link between Hue users and Unix user accounts is the username, and so every Hue user who wants to use the Shell application must have a Unix user account with the same name on the sytem that runs the Hue Server. See the section on Unix user accounts in the Hue Shell configuration section of the Hue Installation Guide for instructions.
![]() | Note: If a button is disabled, the program is not on the system path. Ask your Hue administrator to fix this problem. |
![]() | Note: If you close your browser, the underlying shell process remains running for the amount of time specified by your Hue administrator. After this time the process is killed. |
For information about using each of the default shells, see the documentation on the following sites:
Shell | Site |
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Pig | Pig home page |
HBase | HBase shell page |