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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.
+
+execHiveCmd () {
+  CLASS=$1;
+  shift;
+
+  # cli specific code
+  if [ ! -f ${HIVE_LIB}/hive-cli-*.jar ]; then
+    echo "Missing Hive CLI Jar"
+    exit 3;
+  fi
+
+  if $cygwin; then
+    HIVE_LIB=`cygpath -w "$HIVE_LIB"`
+  fi
+
+  # hadoop 20 or newer - skip the aux_jars option. picked up from hiveconf
+  exec $HADOOP jar ${HIVE_LIB}/hive-cli-*.jar $CLASS $HIVE_OPTS "$@"
+}