&gt; You can&#x27;t use standard Unix&#x2F;Windows tools like awk, wc, grep, Windows Explorer, text editors, and so on, because the structure of HDF5 files is hidden in a binary blob that only the standard libhdf5 understands.<p>HDF provides command-line tools like h5dump and h5diff, so you can dump HDF5 file to text and pipe it into standard and non-standard unix tools [1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hdfgroup.org&#x2F;products&#x2F;hdf5_tools&#x2F;index.html#h5dist" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hdfgroup.org&#x2F;products&#x2F;hdf5_tools&#x2F;index.html#h5di...</a>