title: Inspect Parquet from command line
body: <p>How do I inspect the content of a Parquet file from the command line?</p>
  
  <p>The only option I see now is</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ hadoop fs -get my-path local-file
  $ parquet-tools head local-file | less
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I would like to </p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>avoid creating the <code>local-file</code> and </li>
  <li>view the file content as <code>json</code> rather than the typeless text that <code>parquet-tools</code> prints.</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Is there an easy way?</p>