5 Second WordPress Upgrade Script – Status & Question

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Well I’ve gotten some good feed back from all of you. And I want to say Thanks!

I do have a new version of the script that has some improvements.


  • Fixed extra directory levels in the backup

  • Improved use of quotes

  • Local file location did not untar the file

  • Removed “verbose” from cp to make messages clearer

  • $CommonRootPrefix no longer requires trailing ‘/’

  • Added comment “DO NOT PUT A SLASH AFTER ANY OF THESE VARIABLES”

  • Added a list of directories to backup

  • Changed long backup section into a loop of the directories

  • Changed to tmp directory before performing wgets

  • Added a few more update steps for forward compatiblity

  • Added SQL backup code

  • Added Zip of backups

I’m doing local testing on these changes and will probably release this more publicly Wednesday or Thursday.

In the mean time, I would like to ask for your help.

What is the most optimized version of this line that we can come up with:

grep “define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘” wp-config.php|sed -e ‘s/define(.DB_NAME….//g’|sed -e ‘s/.); .. The name of the database//g’

That line, run from any blog directory, returns the DB_Name in a way I can pass it to MYSQLDump. It is neither, pretty, nor optimized, nor resiliant.

What is the most optimized way YOU can think of to write that bash statement?

EDIT:

SED problem is solved. Thanks to GoldFish on the #SED channel of FreeNode.

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