Last Updated: May 10, 2016
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· phaus

hdfs put from stdin

Try this (untested):

cat test.txt | ssh username@masternode "hadoop dfs -put - hadoopFoldername/"

I've used similar tricks to copy directories around:

tar cf - . | ssh remote "(cd /destination && tar xvf -)"

This sends the output of local-tar into the input of remote-tar.