// cc FileSystemCat Displays files from a Hadoop filesystem on standard output by using the FileSystem directly import java.io.InputStream; import java.net.URI; import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration; import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem; import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path; import org.apache.hadoop.io.IOUtils; // vv FileSystemCat public class FileSystemCat { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { String uri = args[0]; Configuration conf = new Configuration(); FileSystem fs = FileSystem.get(URI.create(uri), conf); InputStream in = null; try { in = fs.open(new Path(uri)); IOUtils.copyBytes(in, System.out, 4096, false); } finally { IOUtils.closeStream(in); } } } // ^^ FileSystemCat