dfs ${system:test.dfs.mkdir} hdfs:///tmp/test_file_with_header_footer_negative/; dfs -copyFromLocal ../../data/files/header_footer_table_1 hdfs:///tmp/test_file_with_header_footer_negative/header_footer_table_1; dfs -copyFromLocal ../../data/files/header_footer_table_2 hdfs:///tmp/test_file_with_header_footer_negative/header_footer_table_2; CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE header_footer_table_1 (name string, message string, id int) ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY '\t' LOCATION 'hdfs:///tmp/test_file_with_header_footer_negative/header_footer_table_1' tblproperties ("skip.header.line.count"="1", "skip.footer.line.count"="200"); SELECT * FROM header_footer_table_1; DROP TABLE header_footer_table_1; dfs -rmr hdfs:///tmp/test_file_with_header_footer_negative;