Tools ***** HDFView ======= HDFView is a graphical user interface (GUI) tool. It cannot handle everything that HDF5 library provides. For example, it cannot handle a compound data type that contains an array of compound data types. h5dump ====== h5dump dumps data from HDF5 file. h5ls ==== h5ls lists HDF5 file contents. It is similar to UNIX ls command. h5repack ======== h5repack copies an HDF5 file to a new file with or without compression and/or chunking. h5stat ====== h5stat reports statistics regarding an HDF5 file and the objects in the file.