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# Common Spark command line

#### $SPARK\_HOME/bin/spark-submit

command to submit Spark driver program (application) to run on Spark cluster

```
 $SPARK_HOME/bin/spark-submit --master spark://10.0.0.202:7077 --class org.apache.spark.examples.SparkPi $SPARK_HOME/examples/jars/spark-examples_2.11-2.4.4.jar
20/04/29 16:05:15 WARN NativeCodeLoader: Unable to load native-hadoop library for your platform... using builtin-java classes where applicable
Pi is roughly 3.1450957254786274

```

#### $SPARK\_HOME/bin/spark-shell

Command line interface to run Scala code with Spark.  It automatically creates a SparkSession called spark and SparkContext called sc after launching. To exit spark-shell, use command :quit

```
spark-shell
20/04/29 15:32:41 WARN NativeCodeLoader: Unable to load native-hadoop library for your platform... using builtin-java classes where applicable
Spark context Web UI available at http://master.hadoop.lan:4040
Spark context available as 'sc' (master = local[*], app id = local-1588199577814).
Spark session available as 'spark'.
Welcome to
      ____              __
     / __/__  ___ _____/ /__
    _\ \/ _ \/ _ `/ __/  '_/
   /___/ .__/\_,_/_/ /_/\_\   version 2.4.4
      /_/

Using Scala version 2.11.12 (Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM, Java 1.8.0_191)
Type in expressions to have them evaluated.
Type :help for more information.

scala>

```

#### $SPARK\_HOME/bin/pyspark

Command line interface to run Python code with Spark, upon launching, it automatically creates SparkSession called spark and SparkContext called sc, it is Python interface, exit with quit()

```
Welcome to
      ____              __
     / __/__  ___ _____/ /__
    _\ \/ _ \/ _ `/ __/  '_/
   /__ / .__/\_,_/_/ /_/\_\   version 2.4.4
      /_/

Using Python version 3.7.4 (default, Aug 13 2019 20:35:49)
SparkSession available as 'spark'.

```

#### $SPARK\_HOME/bin/spark-sql

A SQL client used to run SQL queries against HIVE tables through HIVE thrift server.

```
spark-sql
20/04/29 15:48:41 WARN NativeCodeLoader: Unable to load native-hadoop library for your platform... using builtin-java classes where applicable
Spark master: local[*], Application Id: local-1588200525594
spark-sql> show schemas;
default
jentekllc
Time taken: 3.895 seconds, Fetched 2 row(s)
spark-sql> select 1;
1
Time taken: 1.802 seconds, Fetched 1 row(s)
spark-sql>

```

#### $SPARK\_HOME/bin/run-example

Run built in scala example in $SPARK\_HOME/examples/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/examples

```
$SPARK_HOME/bin/run-example SparkPi
20/04/29 15:55:03 WARN NativeCodeLoader: Unable to load native-hadoop library for your platform... using builtin-java classes where applicable
Pi is roughly 3.1335356676783386

```