I need to update this wordpress install every once in a while. There are lots of bash scripts on the internet that perform this task, and they are complicated beyond reason. This is what I use: ```bash function cfg { grep $2 $1/wp-config.php | awk 'BEGIN {FS="[, )\x27]*"}; {print $3;}' } echo "> backing up database." mysqldump --user=$(cfg $1 DB_USER) \ --password=$(cfg $1 DB_PASSWORD) \ --host=$(cfg $1 DB_HOST) \ $(cfg $1 DB_NAME) > backup.database.sql echo "> backing up website." tar -cjf backup.files.bz2 $1 echo "> retrieving latest wordpress." wget -q https://wordpress.org/latest.zip unzip -qq latest.zip echo "> updating wordpress." rm -r $1/wp-includes $1/wp-admin cp -r wordpress/* $1/ echo "> cleaning up." rm -r wordpress rm latest.zip ``` It takes a single argument, which is the name of your wordpress root directory. It backups your database to the file `backup.database.sql` and backups the files to `backup.files.bz2`, then it simply <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Updating_WordPress#Manual_Update" target="_blank">proceeds as described in the wordpress codex</a> for updating manual. I do not see what all the fuzz is about.