Parquet-Tools contains java based command line tools that aid in the inspection of Parquet files.
Currently these tools are available for UN*X systems.
usage: parquet-tools cat [option...] <input> where option is one of: --debug Disable color output even if supported -h,--help Show this help string --no-color Disable color output even if supported where <input> is the parquet file to print to stdout usage: parquet-tools head [option...] <input> where option is one of: --debug Disable color output even if supported -h,--help Show this help string -n,--records <arg> The number of records to show (default: 5) --no-color Disable color output even if supported where <input> is the parquet file to print to stdout usage: parquet-tools schema [option...] <input> where option is one of: -d,--detailed <arg> Show detailed information about the schema. --debug Disable color output even if supported -h,--help Show this help string --no-color Disable color output even if supported where <input> is the parquet file containing the schema to show usage: parquet-tools meta [option...] <input> where option is one of: --debug Disable color output even if supported -h,--help Show this help string --no-color Disable color output even if supported where <input> is the parquet file to print to stdout usage: parquet-tools dump [option...] <input> where option is one of: -c,--column <arg> Dump only the given column, can be specified more than once -d,--disable-data Do not dump column data --debug Disable color output even if supported -h,--help Show this help string -m,--disable-meta Do not dump row group and page metadata --no-color Disable color output even if supported where <input> is the parquet file to print to stdout