Comparing h5 files

Question

I often have to compare hdf files. How I do it is either with a binary diff (which tells me files are different even though the actual numbers inside are the same) or by dumping the content into a txt file with h5dump and the comparing the content of the two files (which is also quite annoying).

I was wondering if there is a more clever way to do this, perhaps a feature of h5 or of softwares like HDFView or Panoply.

Answer 1

Perhaps hdiff is what you require ? Some examples here