HDF5 Command-line Tools

These are HDF5 command-line utilities that come with the HDF5 software distribution.

• gif2h5 / h52gif - Converts to/from GIF file and HDF5
• h5cc - h5pcc, h5fc - h5pfc, h5c++ - Helper scripts for compiling an HDF5 application
• h5check - Verifies that an HDF5 file is encoded according to the HDF5 specification
• h5clear - Clears superblock status_flags field, removes metadata cache image, prints EOA and EOF, or sets EOA of a file
• h5copy - Copies objects to a new HDF5 file
• h5debug - Debugs an existing HDF5 file at a low level
• h5diff - Compares two HDF5 files and reports the differences
• h5dump - Enables the user to examine the contents of an HDF5 file and dump those contents to an ASCII file
• h5format_convert - Converts the layout format version and chunked indexing types of datasets created with HDF5-1.10 so applications built with HDF5-1.8 can access them
• h5import - Imports ASCII or binary data into HDF5
• h5jam - h5unjam - Add/Remove text to/from User Block at the beginning of an HDF5 file
• h5ls - Lists selected information about file objects in the specified format
• h5mkgrp - Makes a group in an HDF5 file
• h5perf - Measures Parallel HDF5 performance
• h5perf_serial - Measures HDF5 serial performance
• h5redeploy - Updates HDF5 compiler tools' paths after the HDF5 software has been installed in a new location
• h5repack - Copies an HDF5 file to a new file with or without compression/chunking
• h5repart - Repartitions a file or family of files
• h5stat - Displays object and metadata information for an HDF5 file
• h5watch - Outputs new records appended to a dataset as the dataset grows