h5repack(1)						      General Commands Manual						       h5repack(1)

NAME

       h5repack - Copy an HDF5 file to a new file with or without compression/chunking

SYNOPSIS

       h5repack -i file1 -o file2 [-h] [-v] [-f 'filter'] [-l 'layout'] [-m number] [-e file]

DESCRIPTION

       h5repack is a command line tool that applies HDF5 filters to a input file file1, saving the output in a new file, file2.

       'filter' is a string with the format	 <list of objects> : <name of filter> = <filter parameters>.

       <list  of objects> is a comma separated list of object names meaning apply compression only to those objects. If no object names are speci-
       fied, the filter is applied to all objects.

       <name of filter> can be:
	   GZIP, to apply the HDF5 GZIP filter (GZIP compression)
	   SZIP, to apply the HDF5 SZIP filter (SZIP compression)
	   SHUF, to apply the HDF5 shuffle filter
	   FLET, to apply the HDF5 checksum filter
	   NONE, to remove the filter

       <filter parameters> contains the optional compression information:
	   SHUF (no parameter)
	   FLET (no parameter)
	   GZIP=<deflation level> from 1-9
	   SZIP=<pixels per block,coding> (pixels per block is a even number in 2-32 and coding method is 'EC' or 'NN')

       'layout' is a string with the format
	   <list of objects> : <layout type>

       <list of objects> is a comma separated list of object names, meaning that layout information is supplied for those objects.  If	no  object
       names are specified, the layout is applied to all objects.

       <layout type> can be:
	   CHUNK, to apply chunking layout
	   COMPA, to apply compact layout
	   CONTI, to apply continuous layout

       <layout parameters> is present for the chunk case only it is the chunk size of each dimension: <dim_1 x dim_2 x ... dim_n>

OPTIONS

       file1,file2
	      The input and output HDF5 files

       -h     Print a help message

       -f filter
	      Filter type

       -l layout
	      Layout type

       -v     Verbose mode. Print output (list of objects in the file, filters and layout applied).

       -e file
	      File with the -f and -l options (only filter and layout flags)

       -d delta
	      Print  only differences that are greater than the limit delta.  delta must be a positive number. The comparison criterion is whether
	      the absolute value of the difference of two corresponding values is greater than delta (e.g., |a-b| > delta, where a is a  value	in
	      file1 and b is a value in file2).

       -m number
	      Do  not  apply  the filter to objects which size in bytes is smaller than number. If no size is specified a minimum of 1024 bytes is
	      assumed.

EXAMPLES

       Apply GZIP compression to all objects in file1 and save the output in file2:

	    h5repack -i file1 -o file2 -f GZIP=1 -v

       Apply SZIP compression only to object 'dset1':

	    h5repack -i file1 -o file2 -f dset1:SZIP=8,NN -v

       Apply a chunked layout to objects 'dset1' and 'dset2':

	    h5repack -i file1 -o file2 -l dset1,dset2:CHUNK=20x10 -v

SEE ALSO

       h5dump(1), h5ls(1), h5diff(1), h5import(1), gif2h5(1), h52gif(1), h5perf(1), h5repart(1).

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