Unable to run simple presto shell query

I am trying to run simplest query. However it is not working.

-bash-4.2$ prestosql --execute "select 1;"
Exception in thread "main" io.airlift.airline.ParseArgumentsUnexpectedException: Found unexpected parameters: [1;]
    at io.airlift.airline.SingleCommand.validate(SingleCommand.java:98)
    at io.airlift.airline.SingleCommand.parse(SingleCommand.java:65)
    at io.airlift.airline.SingleCommand.parse(SingleCommand.java:56)
    at io.prestosql.cli.Presto.main(Presto.java:24)

But –file option works fine

-bash-4.2$ cat a.sql
select 1;
-bash-4.2$ prestosql --file a.sql > result
-bash-4.2$ cat result
"1"

Any ideas? UPD: Trying to escape ‘;’ with backslash doesn’t help(

-bash-4.2$ prestosql --execute "select 1"
Exception in thread "main" io.airlift.airline.ParseArgumentsUnexpectedException: Found unexpected parameters: [1]
    at io.airlift.airline.SingleCommand.validate(SingleCommand.java:98)
    at io.airlift.airline.SingleCommand.parse(SingleCommand.java:65)
    at io.airlift.airline.SingleCommand.parse(SingleCommand.java:56)
    at io.prestosql.cli.Presto.main(Presto.java:24)
-bash-4.2$ prestosql --execute "select 1;"
Exception in thread "main" io.airlift.airline.ParseArgumentsUnexpectedException: Found unexpected parameters: [1;]
    at io.airlift.airline.SingleCommand.validate(SingleCommand.java:98)
    at io.airlift.airline.SingleCommand.parse(SingleCommand.java:65)
    at io.airlift.airline.SingleCommand.parse(SingleCommand.java:56)
    at io.prestosql.cli.Presto.main(Presto.java:24)

Answer

This turned out to be an issue with the wrapper around presto CLI executable jar.

The wrapper script needs to use "$@" to preserve parameter with spaces (like the SQL query being passed to --execute).

Note: there is usually no need to have a wrapper script for CLI executable. It’s executable, so you can place it directly on $PATH. (Or, place a symlink on path)