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NAME

       h5dump - Displays HDF5 file contents.

SYNOPSIS

       h5dump [OPTIONS] file

DESCRIPTION

       h5dump  enables  the user to examine the contents of an HDF5 file and dump those contents,
       in human readable form, to an ASCII file.

       h5dump dumps HDF5 file content to standard output. It can  display  the  contents  of  the
       entire  HDF5  file  or  selected  objects,  which  can  be groups, datasets, a subset of a
       dataset, links, attributes, or datatypes.

       The --header option displays object header information only.

       Names are the absolute names of the objects. h5dump displays objects in the order same  as
       the  command order. If a name does not start with a slash, h5dump begins searching for the
       specified object starting at the root group.

       If an object is hard linked with multiple names, h5dump displays the content of the object
       in the first occurrence. Only the link information is displayed in later occurrences.

       h5dump  assigns  a name for any unnamed datatype in the form of #oid1:oid2, where oid1 and
       oid2 are the object identifiers assigned by the library. The unnamed types  are  displayed
       within the root group.

       Datatypes  are  displayed  with  standard type names. For example, if a dataset is created
       with H5T_NATIVE_INT type and the standard  type  name  for  integer  on  that  machine  is
       H5T_STD_I32BE, h5dump displays H5T_STD_I32BE as the type of the dataset.

       h5dump  can also dump a subset of a dataset. This feature operates in much the same way as
       hyperslabs in HDF5; the parameters specified on the commnd line are passed to the function
       H5Sselect_hyperslab and the resulting selection is displayed.

       The  h5dump  output  is  described  in  detail  in  the DDL for HDF5, the Data Description
       Language document.

       Note: It is not permissable to specify multiple attributes, datasets,  datatypes,  groups,
       or soft links with one flag. For example, one may not issue the command
              WRONG:   h5dump -a /attr1 /attr2 foo.h5
       to display both /attr1 and /attr2. One must issue the following command:
              CORRECT:   h5dump -a /attr1 -a /attr2 foo.h5

       It's  possible  to  select  the  file driver with which to open the HDF5 file by using the
       --filedriver (-f) command-line option. Acceptable values for the --filedriver option  are:
       "sec2", "family", "split", "multi", and "stream". If the file driver flag isn't specified,
       then the file will be opened with each driver in turn and in  the  order  specified  above
       until one driver succeeds in opening the file.

XML OUTPUT

       With  the  --xml  option,  h5dump  generates  XML  output. This output contains a complete
       description of the file, marked up in XML. The XML conforms  to  the  HDF5  Document  Type
       Definition (DTD) available at http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/DTDs/HDF5-File.dtd.

       The XML output is suitable for use with other tools, including the HDF5 Java Tools.

OPTIONS

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

       -B     or  --bootblock  Print  the  content  of  the  boot  block. (This option is not yet
              implemented.)

       -H     or --header Print the header only; no data is displayed.

       -A     Print the header and value of attributes; data of datasets is not displayed.

       -i     or --object-ids Print the object ids.

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

       -V     or --version Print version number and exit.

       -a P   or --attribute=P Print the specified attribute.

       -d P   or --dataset=P Print the specified dataset.

       -f D   or --filedriver=D Specify which driver to open the file with.

       -g P   or --group=P Print the specified group and all members.

       -l P   or --soft-link=P Print the value(s) of the specified soft link.

       -o F   or --output=F Output raw data into file F.

       -t T   or --datatype=T Print the specified named datatype.

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

       -x     or --xml Output XML using XML schema (default) instead of DDL.

       -u     or --use-dtd Output XML using XML DTD instead of DDL.

       -D U   or --xml-dtd=U In XML output, refer to the DTD  or  schema  at  U  instead  of  the
              default schema/DTD.

       -X S   or  --xml-dns=S In XML output, (XML Schema) use qualified names in the XML: ":": no
              namespace, default: "hdf5:"

       -s L   or --start=L Offset of start of subsetting selection. Default: the beginning of the
              dataset.

       -S L   or --stride=L Hyperslab stride. Default: 1 in all dimensions.

       -c L   or --count=L Number of blocks to include in the selection.

       -k L   or --block=L Size of block in hyperslab. Default: 1 in all dimensions.

       --     Indicate  that all following arguments are non-options. E.g., to dump a file called
              `-f', use h5dump -- -f.

       file   The file to be examined.

       The option parameters listed above are defined as follows:

       D      which file driver to use  in  opening  the  file.  Acceptable  values  are  "sec2",
              "family",  "split",  "multi",  and  "stream". Without the file driver flag the file
              will be opened with each driver in turn and in the order specified above until  one
              driver succeeds in opening the file.

       P      The full path from the root group to the object

       T      The name of the datatype

       F      A filename

       N      An integer greater than 1

       L      A list of integers, the number of which is equal to the number of dimensions in the
              dataspace being queried

       U      A URI (as defined in [IETF RFC 2396], updated by [IETF RFC 2732])  that  refers  to
              the DTD to be used to validate the XML

       Subsetting paramaters can also be expressed in a convenient compact form, as follows:
              --dataset="/foo/mydataset[START;STRIDE;COUNT;BLOCK]"

       All of the semicolons (;) are required, even when a parameter value is not specified. When
       not specified, default parameter values are used.

EXAPLES

       1.     Dumping the group /GroupFoo/GroupBar in the file quux.h5:
                        h5dump -g /GroupFoo/GroupBar quux.h5

       2.     Dumping the dataset Fnord in the group /GroupFoo/GroupBar in the file quux.h5:
                        h5dump -d /GroupFoo/GroupBar/Fnord quux.h5

       3.     Dumping  the  attribute  metadata  of  the  dataset  Fnord  which   is   in   group
              /GroupFoo/GroupBar in the file quux.h5:
                        h5dump -a /GroupFoo/GroupBar/Fnord/metadata quux.h5

       4.     Dumping  the attribute metadata which is an attribute of the root group in the file
              quux.h5:
                        h5dump -a /metadata quux.h5

       5.     Producing an XML listing of the file bobo.h5:
                        h5dump --xml bobo.h5 > bobo.h5.xml

       6.     Dumping a subset of the dataset /GroupFoo/databar/ in the file quux.h5
              h5dump   -d   /GroupFoo/databar   --start="1,1"    --stride="2,3"    --count="3,19"
              --block="1,1" quux.h5

       7.     The same example using the short form to specify the subsetting parameters:
              h5dump -d "/GroupFoo/databar[1,1;2,3;3,19;1,1]" quux.h5

CURRENT STATUS

       The current version of h5dump displays the following information:
              * Group
                     o group attribute (see Attribute)
                     o group member
              * Dataset
                     o dataset attribute (see Attribute)
                     o dataset type (see Datatype)
                     o dataset space (see Dataspace)
                     o dataset data
              * Attribute
                     o attribute type (see Datatype)
                     o attribute space (see Dataspace)
                     o attribute data
              * Datatype
                     o integer type
                            - H5T_STD_I8BE, H5T_STD_I8LE, H5T_STD_I16BE, ...
                     o floating point type
                            - H5T_IEEE_F32BE, H5T_IEEE_F32LE, H5T_IEEE_F64BE, ...
                     o string type
                     o compound type
                            -  named,  unnamed and transient compound type - integer, floating or
                            string type member
                     o opaque types
                     o reference type
                            - object references
                            - data regions
                     o enum type
                     o variable-length datatypes
                            - atomic types only
                            -  scalar  or  single  dimensional  array  of  variable-length  types
                            supported
              * Dataspace
                     o scalar and simple space
              * Soft link
              * Hard link
              * Loop detection

SEE ALSO

       h5ls(1), h5diff(1), h5repart(1), h5import(1), gif2h5(1), h52gif(1), h5perf(1)

              *        HDF5        Data        Description        Language        syntax       at
              file:///usr/share/doc/libhdf5-doc/html/ddl.html
              * HDF5 XML Schema at http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/DTDs/HDF5-File.xsd
              * HDF5 XML information at http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/XML/

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