title: How to check whether any particular partition exist or not in HIVE
body: <p>How to check whether any particular partition exist or not in HIVE:</p>
  
  <p>I have partitions in my hive table as below:</p>
  
  <p>country=india/state=MH
    country=US/state=NY</p>
  
  <p>i want to check whether country = "something and state="something" exist or not in HIVE  or using shell script.Please help</p>