Parquet-Tools contains java based command line tools that aid in the inspection of Parquet files.
Currently these tools are available for UN*X systems.
usage: parquet-tools cat [option...] <input>
where option is one of:
--debug Disable color output even if supported
-h,--help Show this help string
--no-color Disable color output even if supported
where <input> is the parquet file to print to stdout
usage: parquet-tools head [option...] <input>
where option is one of:
--debug Disable color output even if supported
-h,--help Show this help string
-n,--records <arg> The number of records to show (default: 5)
--no-color Disable color output even if supported
where <input> is the parquet file to print to stdout
usage: parquet-tools schema [option...] <input>
where option is one of:
-d,--detailed <arg> Show detailed information about the schema.
--debug Disable color output even if supported
-h,--help Show this help string
--no-color Disable color output even if supported
where <input> is the parquet file containing the schema to show
usage: parquet-tools meta [option...] <input>
where option is one of:
--debug Disable color output even if supported
-h,--help Show this help string
--no-color Disable color output even if supported
where <input> is the parquet file to print to stdout
usage: parquet-tools dump [option...] <input>
where option is one of:
-c,--column <arg> Dump only the given column, can be specified more than
once
-d,--disable-data Do not dump column data
--debug Disable color output even if supported
-h,--help Show this help string
-m,--disable-meta Do not dump row group and page metadata
--no-color Disable color output even if supported
where <input> is the parquet file to print to stdout