title: How to get a reference to values queried in hbase shell?
body: <p>Throughout the hbase documentation, I find statements like:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>The same commands also can be run on a table reference. Suppose you had a reference t to table ‘t1’, the corresponding commands would be ...</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>But I'm unable to find how to get references to objects queried, when I make queries from the hbase shell.</p>
  
  <p>How do you get a reference to a table? More to the point, how do you get a reference to the values received?</p>