THG HDF5 Tools
Utilities that come with the HDF5 Distribution
Following is a list of the HDF5 utilities that are
available on most platforms supported with HDF5. These utilities come
with the pre-compiled binary distribution of HDF5 and can also be
downloaded separately. See the page on
Obtaining HDF5.
- gif2h5 - Converts a GIF file into HDF5.
- h5import - Imports ASCII or binary data into HDF5.
- h5diff - Compares two HDF5 files and reports the differences. See also
- h5repack - Copies
an HDF5 file to a new file with or without compression/chunking.
- h52gif - Converts an HDF5 file into GIF.
- h5cc,
h5fc,
h5c++
- Simplifies compiling an HDF5 application. [ Also see FAQ ]
- h5debug - Debugs an existing HDF5 file at a low level.
- h5dump - Enables the user to examine the contents of an HDF5 file
and dump those contents to an ASCII file.
- 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.
- h5redeploy - Updates HDF5 compiler tools' paths after the HDF5 software
has been installed in a new location. See h5cc.
- h5repart - Repartitions a file or family of files.
HDF and HDF5 Java Tools
HDF Web-browser Plugin
The HDF Web-browser Plugin extends a web browser to display HDF4 and HDF5
files. Currently, it is only available on the Windows platform. It can
be obtained from the following page:
plugins/
H4-H5 Conversion Software
Other Tools of Interest