Author: Alex Kirk

Whenever a new version of WordPress comes out (as just WordPress 2.6 did), it is somewhat of a pain to upgrade it.

But not for me anymore, because I have created a small (and simple) script some versions ago which I would like to share with you.


$ cat upgrade_wordpress.sh
wget http://www.wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
mv www wordpress
tar --overwrite -xzf latest.tar.gz
rm latest.tar.gz
mv wordpress www


www is my document root and the script sits outside of it. It downloads the most recent version, extracts it while overwriting the already existing files. The script doesn’t contain anything extra-ordinary, but makes upgrading real easy.

Of course this script is only useful if you have ssh access to your web server, but if you do that script might ease the (almost too frequent) pain of upgrading WordPress.

I am only scratching my own itch here, but maybe someone can use it or expand from it.

I just always found annoying that pear run-tests tab gives all files instead of just *.phpt. This is what this snippet actually does.

Paste this into the file /opt/local/etc/bash_completion on OSX (for me it is just before _filedir_xspec()) or into a new file /etc/bash_completion.d/pear on Debian.


# pear completion
#
have pear &&
{
_pear()
{
local cur prev commands options command

COMPREPLY=()
cur=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}

commands='build bundle channel-add channel-alias channel-delete channel-discover channel-info channel-update clear-cache config-create config-get config-help config-set config-show convert cvsdiff cvstag download download-all info install list list-all list-channels list-files list-upgrades login logout makerpm package package-dependencies package-validate pickle remote-info remote-list run-scripts run-tests search shell-test sign uninstall update-channels upgrade upgrade-all'

if [[ $COMP_CWORD -eq 1 ]] ; then
if [[ "$cur" == -* ]]; then
COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W '-V' -- $cur ) )
else
COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W "$commands" -- $cur ) )
fi
else

command=${COMP_WORDS[1]}

case $command in
run-tests)
_filedir 'phpt'
;;
esac
fi

return 0
}
complete -F _pear $default pear
}


Then re-source your bashrc or logout and re-login.

I am far from being an expert in bash_completion programming, so I hope someone can go on from here (or maybe has something more complete lying around?).