Convert hdf5 to netcdf4 in bash, R, python, cdo or NCL?

Question

Is there a quick and simple way to convert HDF5 files to netcdf(4) from the command line in bash? Alternatively a simple script that handle such a conversion automatically in R, cdo, NCL or python ?

Answer 1

with netcdf-c library you can:

$ nccopy in.h5 out.nc