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

Every now and again I find I have ssh access to one server - which has access to somewhere I need to get to - but I want direct access (eg to forward an X session)