These utilities include ncdump, nccopy, nccompare, and FeatureScan. The documentation provides details on use.

These Java programs offer the following additional features not currently available with the C utilities:

• The input need not be a netCDF file, but can be any CDM dataset, for example HDF5, GRIB, NEXRAD, or any dataset served through the OPeNDAP protocol.
• ncdump can output NcML instead of CDL, and can show data for sections of variables
• nccompare can compare metadata of two files for "semantic equivalence" and can optionally also compare data
• FeatureScan scans files in a directory (and optionally subdirectories recursively) to report if they are CDM files

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