# DwC-A / DwC-DP CLI validator?

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**Created:** [February 10, 2026, 7:50pm UTC](https://discourse.gbif.org/t/dwc-a-dwc-dp-cli-validator/6230 "2026-02-10T19:50:47Z")\
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@kueda I looked for one late in 2024 when trying to work with the perfectly awful ALA archives:

[Getting ALA data to the usable stage](https://discourse.gbif.org/t/getting-ala-data-to-the-usable-stage/5413)

but didn’t find one. It would be pretty easy to write a checking function with AWK and other shell tools.

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