Command Line Tools

openPMD-api installs command line tools alongside the main library. These terminal-focused tools help to quickly explore, manage or manipulate openPMD data series.

openpmd-ls

List information about an openPMD data series.

The syntax of the command line tool is printed via:

openpmd-ls --help

With some pip-based python installations, you might have to run this as a module:

python -m openpmd_api.ls --help