And in this document, the HDF5 Reference Manual H5 H5A H5D H5E H5F H5G H5I H5P H5R H5S H5T H5Z Tools Datatypes HDF5 Tools HDF5 Tool Interfaces These tools enable the user to examine HDF5 files interactively. It may display the content of the whole HDF5 file or selected objects, which can be groups, datasets, links, attributes, or data types.
Names are the absolute names of the objects.
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. The unnamed types are displayed within the root group. Data types are displayed with standard type names.