h5ls(1)

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, meet h5ls — she prints information about a file or dataset. that's the whole job description and she eats every single time 💅

h5ls [OPTIONS] file [OBJECTS...]

h5ls prints selected information about file objects in the specified format. lowkey that's it, that's the vibe, and yet she is so iconic for it 🎀

-h or -? or --help — print a usage message and exit. she says her piece then dips, periodt ✌️
-a or --address — print addresses for raw data.
-d or --data — print the values of datasets. the receipts, fr fr 🧾
-e or --errors — show all HDF5 error reporting.
-f or --full — print full path names instead of base names. no nicknames, government name only 👑
-g or --group — show information about a group, not its contents. don't go snooping through her inner circle 🙈
-l or --label — label members of compound datasets.
-r or --recursive — list all groups recursively, avoiding cycles. she goes deep but she never loops back on herself, that's main character discipline 🌀
-s or --string — print 1-bytes integer datasets as ASCII.
-S or --simple — use a machine-readable output format. for when the robots need to read it too 🤖
-wN or --width=N — set the number of columns of output.
-v or --verbose — generate more verbose output. she will tell you everything and you will listen 💬
-V or --version — print version number and exit.
-x or --hexdump — show raw data in hexadecimal format.

and then the two positional besties, don't forget them:

file — the file name, and ngl she may include a printf(3C) integer format such as %%05d to open a file family 🌈
objects — each object consists of an HDF5 file name, optionally followed by a slash and an object name within the file. if no object is specified within the file, then the contents of the root group are displayed. the file name may include a printf(3C) integer format such as "%05d" to open a file family.

ok real talk, that printf(3C) thing is how you get a whole file family out of one command and it's giving unhinged genius, iykyk 🫶

go bother her friends, they're all icons too:

and that's the whole page bestie 💜 this was h5ls(1) from the General Commands Manual — no cap, go print some file info, you're gonna slay 🦋✨💖

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