text: #!/usr/bin/env python
  
  r"""
  BMC FFDC will at times include the journal in json format
  (journalctl -o json-pretty ).  This is a quick and dirty script which
  will convert that json output into the standard journalctl output
  """
  
  import json
  import re
  import time
  from argparse import ArgumentParser
  
  
  def jpretty_to_python(buf):
      entries = []
  
      for entry in re.findall(
              '^{$(.+?)^}$', buf, re.DOTALL | re.MULTILINE):
          entries += [json.loads('{{{}}}'.format(entry))]
  
      return entries
  
  
  if __name__ == '__main__':
      parser = ArgumentParser()
      parser.add_argument(
          'journalfile', metavar='FILE', help='the file to parse')
  
      args = parser.parse_args()
  
      with open(args.journalfile) as fd:
          entries = jpretty_to_python(fd.read())
          entries = sorted(entries, key=lambda k: k['__REALTIME_TIMESTAMP'])
  
          for e in entries:
              e['ts'] = time.ctime(
                  float(e['__REALTIME_TIMESTAMP']) / 1000000).rstrip()
              try:
                  print ('{ts} {_HOSTNAME} {SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER}: {MESSAGE}'.format(**e))
              except:
                  print ("Unable to parse msg: " + str(e))
                  continue
  