How to find the public key for a given host SHA

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Trying to locate the public key for a host on your hub in order to validate trust? Use this snippet to figure out which public key file in /var/cfengine/ppkeys matches a given host SHA.

# KEY="SHA=31bcb32950d8b91ffdfca85bca71364ec8f67c93246e3617c3a49af58363c4a1"
# for each in $(ls /var/cfengine/ppkeys/*.pub); do
 if [ "$(cf-key -n -p ${each})" = "$KEY" ]; then
  echo "Found KEY in $each";
 fi
done