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Command Line Utilities
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ADIOS 2 provides a set of command line utilities for quick data exploration and 
manipulation that builds on top of the library. The are located in the inside the ``adios2-install-location/bin`` directory after a ``make install`` 

.. tip::

   Optionally the ``adios2-install-location/bin`` location can be added to your PATH to avoid absolute paths when using adios2 command line utilities   


Currently supported tools are:

* ``bpls`` : exploration of bp/hdf5 files data and metadata in human readable formats   
* ``adios_reorganize``
* ``adios2-config``
* ``sst_conn_tool`` : SST staging engine connectivity diagnostic tool

.. include:: utilities/bpls.rst
.. include:: utilities/adios_reorganize.rst
.. include:: utilities/adios2-config.rst
.. include:: utilities/sst_conn_tool.rst