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Phil Rasch (pnl.gov) wrote a lightweight shell script that uses curl to send a small version of the file to the checker, and accesses the NERC website from a linux/unix command line so you don't need to install the checker, and you can check many files quickly. The script is stored in the github PreAndPostProcessingScripts repository /wiki/spaces/ATM/pages/31130398 at https://github.com/ACME-Climate/PreAndPostProcessingScripts/blob/master/utils/quick_and_dirty_cf_compliance_checker.
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utils/quick_and_dirty_cf_compliance_checker
Usage
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quick_and_dirty_cf_compliance_checker <filename.nc>
Dependencies
nco, ncdump, curl
(requires a relatively modern version of curl)
Alternate checker (yet to be evaluated)
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