[Nexus] nxbrowse and other tools

[Pete Jemian]

nxbrowse is an application distributed with the NAPI. See this page for an
example of is use.
https://manual.nexusformat.org/introduction-napi.html?highlight=nxbrowse#how-do-i-browse-a-nexus-file
(this URL should be added to the manual).  Additional links in that page
lead to instructions on how to install the NAPI.

Yet, installing the NAPI may not satisfy your goal of a simple command line
browser.  The simplest command line tool (from the HDF Group) might be
h5dump. Be sure to select some of its options (such as '-n') to control the
output.  Your call which to choose. Depends on what you want to see.

One alternative for the command line is punx (
https://prjemian.github.io/punx), a Python program that provides a tree
view of any HDF5 file. Installation instructions on the web site.

With increasing complexity over the command line tools, the nexusformat and
h5py Python packages provide libraries for you to read NeXus files using
Python code.

Hope this helps,
   Pete

On Wed, Sep 28, 2022, 11:54 AM Nicolas Soler via NeXus <
nexus at shadow.nd.rl.ac.uk> wrote:

> Dear NeXus maintainer,
>
> In my quest for finding a simple tool for browsing NeXus / hdf5 files via
> the command line, I found references to nxbrowse on this page:
>
> https://manual.nexusformat.org/utilities.html#utilities-supplied-with-nexus
>
> However the page doesn't give much information on how to install it. I
> understood elsewhere that the nexus-tools package should be installed but I
> don't see anything for Debian/Ubuntu in the corresponding page (and sudo
> apt install nexus-tools doesn't work).
>
> https://manual.nexusformat.org/installation.html
>
> Could you please provide me with some guidance on this?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Nicolas
>
>
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