2.2. Command Line Interface

The Presto CLI provides a terminal-based interactive shell for runningqueries. The CLI is aself-executingJAR file, which means it acts like a normal UNIX executable.

Download presto-cli-0.229-executable.jar, rename it to presto,make it executable with chmod +x, then run it:

./presto --server localhost:8080 --catalog hive --schema default

Run the CLI with the —help option to see the available options.

By default, the results of queries are paginated using the less programwhich is configured with a carefully selected set of options. This behaviorcan be overridden by setting the environment variable PRESTO_PAGER to thename of a different program such as more, or set it to an empty valueto completely disable pagination.