# sam validate
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This page provides reference information for the Amazon Serverless Application Model Command Line Interface (Amazon SAM CLI) `sam validate` command.

For an introduction to the Amazon SAM CLI, see [What is the Amazon SAM CLI?](what-is-sam-overview.md#what-is-sam-cli)

The `sam validate` command verifies whether an Amazon SAM template file is valid.

## Usage
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```
$ sam validate <options>
```

## Options
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`--config-env TEXT`  <a name="sam-cli-command-reference-sam-validate-options-config-env"></a>
The environment name specifying the default parameter values in the configuration file to use. The default value is "default". For more information about configuration files, see [Amazon SAM CLI configuration file](serverless-sam-cli-config.md).

`--config-file PATH`  <a name="sam-cli-command-reference-sam-validate-options-config-file"></a>
The path and file name of the configuration file containing default parameter values to use. The default value is "samconfig.toml" in the root of the project directory. For more information about configuration files, see [Amazon SAM CLI configuration file](serverless-sam-cli-config.md).

`--debug`  <a name="sam-cli-command-reference-sam-validate-options-debug"></a>
Turns on debug logging to print debug message generated by the Amazon SAM CLI and display timestamps.

`--lint`  <a name="sam-cli-command-reference-sam-validate-options-lint"></a>
 Run linting validation on template through **cfn-lint**. Create a `cfnlintrc` config file to specify additional parameters. For more information, see [cfn-lint](https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/cfn-lint) in the *Amazon CloudFormation GitHub repository*. 

`--profile TEXT`  <a name="sam-cli-command-reference-sam-validate-options-profile"></a>
The specific profile from your credential file that gets Amazon credentials.

`--region TEXT`  <a name="sam-cli-command-reference-sam-validate-options-region"></a>
The Amazon Region to deploy to. For example, us-east-1.

`--save-params`  <a name="sam-cli-command-reference-sam-validate-options-save-params"></a>
Save the parameters that you provide at the command line to the Amazon SAM configuration file.

`--template-file, --template, -t PATH`  <a name="sam-cli-command-reference-sam-validate-options-template-file"></a>
 The Amazon SAM template file. Default value is `template.[yaml|yml]`.   
 If your template is in your current working directory and is named `template.[yaml|yml|json]`, this option is not required.   
 If you just ran **sam build**, this option is not required. 

## Example
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For an example on using this command to validate a template, refer to [Validate Amazon SAM template files](serverless-sam-cli-using-validate.md).

For an example on using this command with cfn-lint, refer to [Validate your Amazon SAM applications with Amazon CloudFormation Linter](validate-cfn-lint.md).