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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.
+
+#
+# processes --config option from command line
+#
+
+this="$0"
+while [ -h "$this" ]; do
+  ls=`ls -ld "$this"`
+  link=`expr "$ls" : '.*-> \(.*\)$'`
+  if expr "$link" : '.*/.*' > /dev/null; then
+    this="$link"
+  else
+    this=`dirname "$this"`/"$link"
+  fi
+done
+
+# convert relative path to absolute path
+bin=`dirname "$this"`
+script=`basename "$this"`
+bin=`cd "$bin"; pwd`
+this="$bin/$script"
+
+# the root of the Hadoop installation
+export HIVE_HOME=`dirname "$bin"`
+
+#check to see if the conf dir is given as an optional argument
+while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do    # Until you run out of parameters . . .
+  case "$1" in
+    --config)
+        shift
+        confdir=$1
+        shift
+        HIVE_CONF_DIR=$confdir
+        ;;
+    --auxpath)
+        shift
+        HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH=$1
+        shift
+        ;;
+    *)
+        break;
+        ;;
+  esac
+done
+
+
+# Allow alternate conf dir location.
+HIVE_CONF_DIR="${HIVE_CONF_DIR:-$HIVE_HOME/conf}"
+
+export HIVE_CONF_DIR=$HIVE_CONF_DIR
+export HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH=$HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH
+
+# Default to use 256MB 
+export HADOOP_HEAPSIZE=${HADOOP_HEAPSIZE:-256}