Tools

HDFView

HDFView is a graphical user interface (GUI) tool. It cannot handle everything that HDF5 library provides. For example, it cannot handle a compound data type that contains an array of compound data types.

h5dump

h5dump dumps data from HDF5 file.

h5ls

h5ls lists HDF5 file contents. It is similar to UNIX ls command.

h5repack

h5repack copies an HDF5 file to a new file with or without compression and/or chunking.

h5stat

h5stat reports statistics regarding an HDF5 file and the objects in the file.