This script makes sure the dev site is clean, emails a log summary of updates about to be applied, updates the site and emails me so I know what changed.

I’m using this on a dev site which is periodically updated to the latest master for testing.

Nice bit of bash fu I discovered today

Add this snippet to the top of scripts and the output of lines below will be tee’d to a logfile.

Handy for those scripts you always want a log of

I usually manage website deployment with bash scripts that run remote commands on the servers

In order that I can see what is going on and debug any errors verbose output is useful.

Running “bash -ex” causes each line to be output as it progresses and halt on any error so that you don’t miss it.

within the remote command “set -x” cause bash to echo all commands

The drush script which provides command line access to drupal functionality emits an error message when run as a cron job

tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified