Create a test user named "testuser" in the Linux cluster and in HDFS, and log in as that user.

hdfs dfs -put /tmp/sample-test.txt /user/testuser

Export the required environment variables for Mahout:

export JAVA_HOME="your_jdk_home_install_location_here
export HADOOP_HOME=/usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client
export MAHOUT_HOME=/usr/hdp.current/mahout-client
export PATH="$PATH":$HADOOP_HOME/bin:$MAHOUT_HOME/bin
export CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":$MAHOUT_HOME

Upload a few megabytes of natural-language plain text to the Linux server as /tmp/sample-test.txt.

Transfer the sample-test file to a subdirectory of the testuser's HDFS home directory.

hdfs dfs -mkdir /user/testuser/testdata
hdfs dfs -put /tmp/sample-test.txt /user/testuser/testdata

Enter the mahout command to convert the plain text file sample-test.txt into a sequence file stored in the output directory mahouttest:

mahout seqdirectory --input /user/testuser/testdata --output /user/testuser/mahouttest -ow --charset utf-8