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+# Manual test for nfdc batch mode
+
+To run the test from this folder
+
+    nfdc -f nfdc-batch.t.txt
+
+    nfdc --batch nfdc-batch.t.txt
+
+If everything works, it should execute 3 commands with example output like this
+in both cases (can be different depending on the NFD runtime):
+
+    face-exists id=263 local=udp4://192.168.100.240:6363 remote=udp4://192.0.2.1:6363 persistency=persistent reliability=off congestion-marking=on congestion-marking-interval=100ms default-congestion-threshold=65536B mtu=8800
+    route-add-accepted prefix=/ nexthop=264 origin=static cost=0 flags=child-inherit expires=never
+    route-add-accepted prefix=/test2/foo%20bar nexthop=265 origin=static cost=0 flags=child-inherit expires=never
+    CS information:
+      capacity=65536
+         admit=on
+         serve=on
+      nEntries=14
+         nHits=0
+       nMisses=53