getting hive configuration from the command line

I wish to retrieve hive configurations from the command line.
Is there any utility like hadoop getconf -confKey for Hive?

i.e.: I wish to retrieve the warehouse dir from hive.xml, get the value and then exit.

Solution 1:

Use the set command, which will print out the current configuration if not provided a value for the key

hive -e 'set hive.metastore.warehouse.dir;'