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<BIG><BIG><BIG><FONT COLOR="#c101cd">Utilities (h5dump, h5ls)</FONT>
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The h5dump and h5ls utilities can be used to examine the contents of an
hdf5 file.
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<H2>h5dump</H2>
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h5dump [-h] [-bb] [-header] [-a <names>] [-d &lt;names&gt;] [-g &lt;names&gt;]
[-l &lt;names&gt;] [-t &lt;names&gt;] &lt;file&gt;
-h Print information on this command.
-bb Display the content of the boot block. The default is not to display.
-header Display header only; no data is displayed.
-a &lt;names&gt Display the specified attribute(s).
-d &lt;names&gt Display the specified dataset(s).
-g &lt;names&gt Display the specified group(s) and all the members.
-l &lt;names&gt Displays the value(s) of the specified soft link(s).
-t &lt;names&gt Display the specified named data type(s).
&lt;names&gt; is one or more appropriate object names.
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<H2>h5ls</H2>
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h5ls [OPTIONS] FILE [OBJECTS...]
OPTIONS
-h, -?, --help Print a usage message and exit
-d, --dump Print the values of datasets
-f, --full Print full path names instead of base names
-l, --label Label members of compound datasets
-r, --recursive List all groups recursively, avoiding cycles
-s, --string Print 1-byte integer datasets as ASCII
-wN, --width=N Set the number of columns of output
-v, --verbose Generate more verbose output
-V, --version Print version number and exit
FILE
The file name may include a printf(3C) integer format such as
"%05d" to open a file family.
OBJECTS
The names of zero or more objects about which information should be
displayed. If a group is mentioned then information about each of its
members is displayed. If no object names are specified then
information about all of the objects in the root group is displayed.
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