diff --git a/admin/testfilter.sh b/admin/testfilter.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..b3f4f469e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/admin/testfilter.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Little hack to filter nobug logging output producing something suiteable for testsuites
+#
+
+gawk --posix -f /dev/fd/3 3<<"EOF"
+BEGIN {
+    FS = ": "
+    toescape = "[]().*{}"
+    prev = ""
+    LOGSUPPRESS="TRACE|INFO|NOTICE|WARNING|ERR|TODO|PLANNED|FIXME|DEPRECATED|UNIMPLEMENTED|RESOURCE_ANNOUNCE|RESOURCE_ENTER|RESOURCE_STATE|RESOURCE_LEAVE"
+}
+
+function escape(string) {
+    for (i = 1; i <= length(toescape); ++i)
+        gsub("\\"substr(toescape, i, 1), "\\"substr(toescape, i, 1), string)
+
+    return string
+}
+
+function linerest(start, end) {
+    result = $start
+
+    for (i = start+1; i <= end; i++)
+    {
+        result = result": "$i
+    }
+    return result
+}
+
+
+function remove_duplicate_spaces(rest) {
+    return "foo"rest"bar"
+}
+
+
+/[0-9]{10}: [A-Z]*: / {
+    rest = linerest(6, NF);
+
+    rest = escape(rest)
+    gsub(/0x[0-9a-f]+/,"0x[0-9a-f]+", rest)
+
+    new = $2 ": .*: " $4 ": " $5 ": " rest
+
+    if (new != prev && !(new ~ LOGSUPPRESS))
+    {
+        print "err: " new
+        prev = new
+    }
+}
+
+EOF
diff --git a/admin/testrunner b/admin/testrunner
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index 000000000..b99534b9d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/admin/testrunner
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+#test rig for running programs manually under libtool and valgrind
+export NOBUG_LOG LUMIERA_PLUGIN_PATH
+make ${CONCURRENCY_LEVEL:+-j$CONCURRENCY_LEVEL} "$1" && libtool --mode=execute valgrind --leak-check=full -q "./$@"