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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# pipe output of grep for objectname in osd logs to me
+#
+# e.g.,
+#
+#  zgrep smithi01817880-936 remote/*/log/*osd* | ~/src/ceph/src/script/find_dups_in_pg_log.sh
+#
+# or
+#
+#  zcat remote/*/log/*osd* | ~/src/ceph/src/script/find_dups_in_pg_log.sh
+#
+# output will be any requests that appear in the pg log >1 time (along with
+# their count)
+
+#grep append_log | sort -k 2 | sed 's/.*append_log//' | awk '{print $3 " " $8}' | sort | uniq | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | grep -v ' 1 '
+
+grep append_log | grep ' by ' | \
+        perl -pe 's/(.*) \[([^ ]*) (.*) by ([^ ]+) (.*)/$2 $4/' | \
+        sort | uniq | \
+        awk '{print $2}' | \
+        sort | uniq -c | grep -v ' 1 '