Last modified: 20 August 2013
Tool Name: h5stat
Syntax:
h5stat [OPTIONSfile

Purpose:
Reports statistics about an HDF5 file and its objects.

Description:
h5stat reports selected statistics regarding an HDF5 file and the objects in that file.

Options and Parameters:
-h   or   --help Print a usage message and exit.
-V   or   --version Print version of HDF5 and exit.
  
-f   or   --file Print file information.
-F   or   --filemetadata Print file space information for file metadata.
-g   or   --group Print group information.
-l N   or   --links=N Set the threshold for the number of links when printing information for small groups.
N is an integer greater than 0. The default threshold is 10.
-G   or   --groupmetadata    Print file space information for group metadata.
-d   or   --dset Print dataset information.
-m N   or   --dims=N Set the threshold for the dimension sizes when printing information for small datasets.
N is an integer greater than 0. The default threshold is 10.
-D   or   --dsetmetadata Print file space information for dataset metadata.
-T   or   --dtypemetadata Print dataset datatype information.
-A   or   --attribute Print attribute information.
-a N   or   --numattrs=N Set the threshold for the number of of attributes when printing information for small numbers of attributes.
N is an integer greater than 0. The default threshold is 10.
-s   or   --freespace Print free space information.
-S   or   --summary Print summary of file space information.

Exit Status:
0 Succeeded.
> 0     An error occurred.

History:
Release     Change
1.10.0 Option added in this release:
     -s, --freespace
1.8.12 Options added in this release:
     -l N,   --links=N
     -m N,   --dims=N
     -a N,   --numattrs=N
1.8.9 Option added in this release:
     -S,   --summary
1.8.0 Tool introduced in this release.