Verifies that an HDF5 file is encoded according to the HDF5 specification

Given a file, h5check scans through the encoded content, verifying it against the defined library format. If it finds any non-compliance, h5check prints the error and the reason behind the non-compliance; if possible, it continues the scanning. If h5check does not find any non-compliance, it prints an approval statement upon completion.

By default, the file is verified against the latest version of the file format; as of this writing, that is the format recognized by the HDF5 Release 1.8.x series. A format version can be explicitly specified with the -fn (or --format=n) option. For example, -f16 (or --format=16) would specify verification against the format recognized by the HDF5 Release 1.6.x series.

-h, --help

Print usage message and exit.

-V, --version

Print version number and exit.

-vn, --verbose n

Set verbose mode:

-e, --external

Validate external links existing in the file.

-fn, --format n

Set library release version against which the file is to be validated:

-oa, --object a

Check object header, where a is the address of the object header to be validated.