NAME¶

h5ls - Prints information about a file or dataset.

SYNOPSIS¶

h5ls [OPTIONS] file [OBJECTS...]

DESCRIPTION¶

h5ls prints selected information about file objects in the specified format.

OPTIONS¶

-h

or -? or --help Print a usage message and exit.

-a

or --address Print addresses for raw data.

-d

or --data Print the values of datasets.

-e

or --errors Show all HDF5 error reporting.

-f

or --full Print full path names instead of base names.

-g

or --group Show information about a group, not its contents.

-l

or --label Label members of compound datasets.

-r

or --recursive List all groups recursively, avoiding cycles.

-s

or --string Print 1-bytes integer datasets as ASCII.

-S

or --simple Use a machine-readable output format.

-wN

or --width=N Set the number of columns of output.

-v

or --verbose Generate more verbose output.

-V

or --version Print version number and exit.

-x

or --hexdump Show raw data in hexadecimal format.

file

The file name may include a printf(3C) integer format such as %%05d to open a file family.

objects

Each object consists of an HDF5 file name optionally followed by a slash and an object name within the file (if no object is specified within the file then the contents of the root group are displayed). The file name may include a printf(3C) integer format such as "%05d" to open a file family.

SEE ALSO¶

h5dump(1), h5diff(1), h5repart(1), h5import(1), gif2h5(1), h52gif(1), h5perf(1)