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authorJonathan Kim <jkm@hdfgroup.org>2011-03-11 15:48:24 (GMT)
committerJonathan Kim <jkm@hdfgroup.org>2011-03-11 15:48:24 (GMT)
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[svn-r20231] Purpose:
Fixed Bug 1904 - h5ls : usage of '-a' option is not clear to display expected output Description: Fixed incorrect content and improved help page for -a option of h5ls. Tested: jam (linux32-LE), amani (linux64-LE), heiwa (linuxppc64-BE), tejeda (mac32-LE), Cmake (jam)
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diff --git a/tools/h5ls/h5ls.c b/tools/h5ls/h5ls.c
index d2233ce..e670470 100644
--- a/tools/h5ls/h5ls.c
+++ b/tools/h5ls/h5ls.c
@@ -105,7 +105,11 @@ usage (void)
usage: %s [OPTIONS] [OBJECTS...]\n\
OPTIONS\n\
-h, -?, --help Print a usage message and exit\n\
- -a, --address Print addresses for raw data\n\
+ -a, --address Print raw data address. If dataset is contiguous, address\n\
+ is offset in file of beginning of raw data. If chunked,\n\
+ returned list of addresses indicates offset of each chunk.\n\
+ Must be used with -v, --verbose option.\n\
+ Provides no information for non-dataset objects.\n\
-d, --data Print the values of datasets\n\
-e, --errors Show all HDF5 error reporting\n\
--follow-symlinks\n\