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Description
If you describe 'table' from the HBase shell, you get an output like this for a very simple table:
hbase(main):023:0> describe 'movie'
DESCRIPTION ENABLED
{NAME => 'movie', FAMILIES => [
,
{NAME => 'media', DATA_BLOCK_ENCODING => 'NONE', BLOOMFILTER => 'N ONE', REPLICATION_SCOPE => '0', VERSIONS => '1', COMPRESSION => 'NONE', MIN_VERS IONS => '0', TTL => '2147483647', KEEP_DELETED_CELLS => 'false', BLOCKSIZE => '6 5536', IN_MEMORY => 'false', ENCODE_ON_DISK => 'true', BLOCKCACHE => 'true'}]}
1 row(s) in 0.0250 seconds
Not only everything is on one row, but also it seems to be limited in width (82 chars).
I suggest we do a line return on each column family, or format it into a JSON (lint) format, or anything more readable!
Thanks!