C:\hadoop-3.2.1\hbase\bin>hbase shell This file has been superceded by packaging our ruby files into a jar and using jruby's bootstrapping to invoke them. If you need to source this file fo some reason it is now named 'jar-bootstrap.rb' and is located in the root of the file hbase-shell.jar and in the source tree at 'hbase-shell/src/main/ruby'.