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I like to do all my Drupal and CiviCRM updates and upgrades within a bash script so that I can perform the update/upgrade actions on a test server, work out all the kinks, and then replicate the successful actions on the live server quickly. My one sticking point with CiviCRM though is running the upgrade script. (This is the step of the process where the CiviCRM documentation instructs users to point their web browser to http://<your_drupal_home>/civicrm/upgrade?reset=1 and follow the instructions.) With Drupal, I'm able to accomplish the analogous step by running "drush -y pm-update". Is there a way I can update/upgrade the CiviCRM database from the command line? Currently, I have my script just pause at that step and wait for user input to affirm that the action has been completed manually, but I'd like to improve it so that I don't have to use the web browser at all.