Last modified: 12 March 2013
Tool Name: h5ls
Syntax:
h5ls [OPTIONS]   file[/OBJECT]   [file[/OBJECT]...]

Purpose:
Prints information about one or more HDF5 files or objects.

Description:
h5ls prints selected information about specified HDF5 file(s) and/or object(s) in the specified format. In some cases, information regarding symbolic links is also provided.

Options and Parameters:

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

Examples:
  1. Display root group in file quux.h5:
        h5ls quux.h5 
  2. Display datasets in file quux.h5:
        h5ls -d quux.h5/dset1 
  3. Display target objects of symbolic links (soft and external links) in file quux.h5:
        h5ls --follow-symlinks quux.h5 
  4. Display all group information in group g1 recursively, avoiding cycles, in file quux.h5:
        h5ls -r -g quux.h5/g1 

History:
Release     Change
1.8.5 Options added in this release:
     --follow-symlinks
     --no-dangling-links
1.8.7 Option name --enable-error-stack replaces deprecated option name --error in this release.