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Obtain Tools and Files (Optional)

Pre-built binaries for Linux and Windows are distributed within the respective HDF5 binary release packages, which can be obtained from the Download HDF5 page.

HDF5 files can be obtained from various places such as HDF5 Examples and HDF-EOS and Tools and Information Center. Specifically, the following examples are used in this tutorial topic:

HDF5 Files created from compiling the Examples from Learning the Basics
HDF5 Files on the Examples by API page
NPP JPSS files, SVM01_npp.. (gzipped) and SVM09_npp.. (gzipped)
HDF-EOS OMI-Aura file

Tutorial Topics

A variety of command-line tools are included in the HDF5 binary distribution. There are tools to view, edit, convert and compare HDF5 files. This tutorial discusses the tools by their functionality. It does not cover all of the HDF5 tools.

Tool Category	Topic	Tools Used
Command-line Tools For Viewing HDF5 Files	File Content and Structure	h5dump and h5ls
	Datasets and Dataset Properties	h5dump and h5ls
	Groups	h5dump and h5ls
	Attributes	h5dump
	Dataset Subset	h5dump
	Datatypes	h5dump
Command-line Tools For Editing HDF5 Files	Remove Inaccessible Objects and Unused Space in a File	h5repack
	Change a Dataset's Storage Layout	h5repack
	Apply Compression Filter to a Dataset	h5repack
	Copy Objects to Another File	h5copy
	Add or Remove User Block from File	h5jam and h5unjam
Command-line Tools For Converting HDF5 Files	Output HDF5 Dataset into an ASCII File (to Import into Excel and Other Applications)	h5dump
	Output HDF5 Dataset into Binary File	h5dump
	Export from h5dump and Import into HDF5	h5dump and h5import

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