 <p>You need to skip " on --query param</p> <pre> sqoopcom="sqoop import --direct --connect abcd --username abc --P --query \"queryname\" --target-dir /pwd/dir --m 1 --fetch-size 1000 --verbose --fields-terminated-by , --escaped-by \\ --enclosed-by '\"'/dir/part-m-00000" </pre>