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authorJonathan Kim <jkm@hdfgroup.org>2012-03-21 18:56:36 (GMT)
committerJonathan Kim <jkm@hdfgroup.org>2012-03-21 18:56:36 (GMT)
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[svn-r22108] Purpose:
HDFFV-7523 JPSS: h5dump fails to open an attribute when using the -a option to specify an attribute with a slash in the name Description: Update command line help page and test generating file. Previous commits: r22052, r22063 Tested: jam (linux32-LE), koala (linux64-LE), cmake (jam)
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/h5dump')
-rw-r--r--tools/h5dump/h5dump.c7
-rw-r--r--tools/h5dump/h5dumpgentest.c2
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/h5dump/h5dump.c b/tools/h5dump/h5dump.c
index 650846a..2799d95 100644
--- a/tools/h5dump/h5dump.c
+++ b/tools/h5dump/h5dump.c
@@ -243,6 +243,9 @@ usage(const char *prog)
HDfprintf(rawoutstream, " -e, --escape Escape non printing characters\n");
HDfprintf(rawoutstream, " -V, --version Print version number and exit\n");
HDfprintf(rawoutstream, " -a P, --attribute=P Print the specified attribute\n");
+ HDfprintf(rawoutstream, " If an attribute name contains a slash (/), escape the\n");
+ HDfprintf(rawoutstream, " slash with a preceding backslash (\\).\n");
+ HDfprintf(rawoutstream, " (See example section below.)\n");
HDfprintf(rawoutstream, " -d P, --dataset=P Print the specified dataset\n");
HDfprintf(rawoutstream, " -y, --noindex Do not print array indices with the data\n");
HDfprintf(rawoutstream, " -p, --properties Print dataset filters, storage layout and fill value\n");
@@ -316,6 +319,10 @@ usage(const char *prog)
HDfprintf(rawoutstream, "\n");
HDfprintf(rawoutstream, " h5dump -a /bar_none/foo quux.h5\n");
HDfprintf(rawoutstream, "\n");
+ HDfprintf(rawoutstream, " Attribute \"high/low\" of the group /bar_none in the file quux.h5\n");
+ HDfprintf(rawoutstream, "\n");
+ HDfprintf(rawoutstream, " h5dump -a \"/bar_none/high\\/low\" quux.h5\n");
+ HDfprintf(rawoutstream, "\n");
HDfprintf(rawoutstream, " 2) Selecting a subset from dataset /foo in file quux.h5\n");
HDfprintf(rawoutstream, "\n");
HDfprintf(rawoutstream, " h5dump -d /foo -s \"0,1\" -S \"1,1\" -c \"2,3\" -k \"2,2\" quux.h5\n");
diff --git a/tools/h5dump/h5dumpgentest.c b/tools/h5dump/h5dumpgentest.c
index 5b97434..b28f3de 100644
--- a/tools/h5dump/h5dumpgentest.c
+++ b/tools/h5dump/h5dumpgentest.c
@@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ gent_attribute(void)
/* attribute 1 */
dims[0] = 24;
space = H5Screate_simple(1, dims, NULL);
- attr = H5Acreate2(root, "attr1", H5T_STD_I8BE, space, H5P_DEFAULT, H5P_DEFAULT);
+ attr = H5Acreate2(root, "/attr1", H5T_STD_I8BE, space, H5P_DEFAULT, H5P_DEFAULT);
sprintf(buf, "attribute of root group");
H5Awrite(attr, H5T_NATIVE_SCHAR, buf);
H5Sclose(space);