HDF5 Forest (h5forest) is an interactive CLI application for exploring HDF5 files.
h5ls works, and h5glance is a great improvement on it. So "Why bother?" I hear you say.
Well, h5forest brings interactivity and functionality not available in its long-standing brethren. h5forest includes:
- An interactive interface capable of handling files with deep hierarchies and large numbers of groups.
- Real-time metadata and attribute displays.
- The ability to display the contents of a Dataset.
- The ability to get basic statistics from a Dataset.
- The ability to quickly plot datasets against each other.
The following features will be coming soon:
- A search function.
- Renaming of Datasets and Groups.
- An emacs plugin to probe HDF5 natively in emacs.
To install h5forest simply clone this repo and run
pip install .
at the root level of the repo (PyPi install coming soon).
You will now have the h5forest command installed. Simply run
h5forest /path/to/hdf5/file.hdf5
on the command line to get started exploring a file.
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