Command line tool reference

Validator

A tool to validate the content of one or several record files. Validation checks compliance with MassBank record format specification and also checks for serialisation problems from record file content to data structure back to record file content.

Usage:

Validator [OPTIONS] <FILE|DIR> [<FILE|DIR> ...]
 <FILE|DIR>		a record file or a directory with record files(scanned recursively)
 -legacy			do validation in legacy mode, is less strict and is not allowed for new records.
 -db					DEVELOPER FREATURE. After validation and serialisation tests, record is retrieved from database and converted
 							back to string and compared with original content. Requires a working MassBank MariaDB container.