diff --git a/scripts/loglist b/scripts/loglist
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+#!/bin/bash
+# lists what playbooks/processes have happened today
+# takes 2 optional arguments: date string, playbook name
+# examples:
+# ./loglist
+# ./loglist yesterday
+# ./loglist "last friday"
+# ./loglist yesterday mirrorlist
+
+logpath='/var/log/ansible'
+
+when='yesterday'
+if [ -n "$1" ]; then
+when=$1
+fi
+
+ts=`date -d "$when" +%Y/%m/%d`
+
+if [ -z "$2" ]; then
+    find $logpath/$ts -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -print 
+exit;
+fi
+
+if [ -d $logpath/$ts/$2 ]; then
+    find $logpath/$ts/$2 -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -print
+else
+   echo "No such playbook log: $2"
+   exit 1
+fi
+
diff --git a/scripts/logview b/scripts/logview
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+#!/bin/bash
+# view the ansible logs
+# takes all the options of grep and passes them straight through - then parses the output so it looks better and readable
+# should only be used on the .log files not the .info files. info files are flat readable
+# example:
+# logview CHANGED /var/log/2013/07/01/mirrorlist/*/*.log
+
+IFS='
+'
+
+for line in `grep -H $@`
+do 
+  logpath=`echo $line| cut -d: -f1`
+  hostname=`basename $logpath`
+  echo -n "$hostname "
+  echo $line | cut -d: -f2-| cut -f3-4
+  json=`echo $line | cut -d: -f2- |cut -f5-`
+  echo $json| python -m json.tool 2>/dev/null >&2
+  if [ $? != 0 ]; then
+    echo "Error parsing json"
+  else 
+    echo $json| python -m json.tool
+  fi
+done
+