[[!comment format=mdwn username="joey" subject="""comment 1""" date="2016-07-11T16:36:11Z" content=""" Hmm, my assumption is that use of checkpresentkey --batch is in some kind of loop, or function call, where you'd write a key to it, read a response back, and now you know whether that key is present. Does your use case involve something like shell scripting? I suppose if you have a big list of keys and want to narrow it to only keys that are present or missing, you could be trying to pipe it through checkpresentkey --batch. """]]