hldec -hdv -i inputfile -f fieldname -o outputprefix
-h Prints an help text.
-d Prints debugging information.
-v Prints the version number.
-i inputfile Specifies the HDF5 file to be decoded.
-f fieldname Specifies the fieldname to be decoded, e.g. '/dataset1'.
-o outputprefix Specifies the prefix for the output files, the files that will be generated are outputprefix.info and outputprefix.data.
The file with extension .info will get the following apperance:
DATATYPE: ATTRIBUTE or DATASET
FIELDNAME: name of the field, e.g. '/attr1'
DATASIZE: size of the datatype in bytes
DATAFORMAT: string representation of the datatype, e.g. int
DIMS: the dimension of the data embraced by [], e.g. [10,10]
The file with extension .data will be saved in byteformat with native byte order.