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+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+THISSERVICE=help
+export SERVICE_LIST="${SERVICE_LIST}${THISSERVICE} "
+
+help() {
+  echo "Usage ./hive <parameters> --service serviceName <service parameters>"
+  echo "Service List: $SERVICE_LIST"
+  echo "Parameters parsed:"
+  echo "  --auxpath : Auxillary jars "
+  echo "  --config : Hive configuration directory"
+  echo "  --service : Starts specific service/component. cli is default"
+  echo "Parameters used:"
+  echo "  HADOOP_HOME : Hadoop install directory"
+  echo "  HIVE_OPT : Hive options"
+  echo "For help on a particular service:"
+  echo "  ./hive --service serviceName --help"
+}
+
+help_help(){
+  help
+}
+