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+<?php
+
+/**
+ * @file
+ *  Drush integration for Message module.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Implementation of hook_drush_command().
+ */
+function message_drush_command() {
+  $items = array();
+
+  $items['message-show'] = array(
+    'description' => 'Show a message that has been saved to the database.',
+    'arguments' => array(
+      'id' => 'The ID of the message instance to show.',
+    ),
+    'options' => array(
+      'entity' => "May specify that the ID should be used to look up 'node', 'comment', or 'user'-related messages.",
+    ),
+    'aliases' => array('msg-show'),
+  );
+
+  return $items;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Implementation of hook_drush_help().
+ */
+function message_drush_help($section) {
+  switch ($section) {
+    case 'drush:message-show':
+      return dt('Supply a message or entity id, see the related messages rendered.');
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Command callback for message-show.
+ */
+function drush_message_show($id) {
+  $entity = drush_get_option('entity', '');
+
+  if (empty($entity)) {
+    $messages = array($id);
+  } 
+  else {
+    $sql = "SELECT iid FROM {message_instance} WHERE entity_type = '%s' AND eid = %d";
+    $results = db_query($sql, $entity, $id);
+
+    $messages = array();
+    while ($item = db_result($results)) {
+      $messages[] = $item;
+    }
+  }
+
+  _drush_message_print_messages($messages);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Helper function to render the passed message.
+ */
+function _drush_message_print_messages($messages) {
+  $messages = message_instance_load_multiple($messages);
+
+  $output[0] = array('iid', 'rendered message');
+  foreach ($messages as $key => $message) {
+    $output[$message->iid] = array($message->iid, message_show_message($message, TRUE));
+  }
+
+  drush_print_table($output, TRUE);
+}