I'm curious about where I can get more information on what the command line tools' function is. I can open it up, and type help, but it says for more information on tools see the command-line reference in the online help. I haven't had any luck finding this reference in the documentation…

Anyone want to share some insight about what they use these tools for?

Or even a link to the section in the help?

http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini15.0/ref/utils/ [sidefx.com]

i only use like iconvert, i tried spy but i like “ranger” a lot better.
also in ranger i use a few tools to catch meta data or view otls and geoemtry, like ginfo.

also there is hotl and hotlview
not sure why they are not listed in the help.

and here some more info on using ranger with houdini:
http://www.alan-warren.com/2012/04/01/503/ [alan-warren.com]

You know spy ?

This is an old thread (the above links are broken) so in case someone stumbles upon this thread wondering like I did, here is the command line tools documentation:

Stand alone utilities [www.sidefx.com]