General ssh update script for Drupal

First transfer the drupal-8.8.x.tar.gz file to your directory

Via your ssh program (for us Terminal on OSX), enter the path to the directory where you transferred the drupal-8.8.x file

gunzip -c drupal-8.8.0.tar.gz | tar xopf -

rm -rf /var/www/vhosts/example.com/subdir/drupal-8.8.0.tar.gz

rm -rf /var/www/vhosts/example.com/subdir/core
; rm -rf /var/www/vhosts/example.com/subdir/modules
; rm -rf /var/www/vhosts/example.com/subdir/profiles
; rm -rf /var/www/vhosts/example.com/subdir/sites
; rm -rf /var/www/vhosts/example.com/subdir/themes
rm -rf /var/www/vhosts/example.com/subdir/vendor
rm -rf /var/www/vhosts/example.com/subdir/autoload.php
; rm -rf /var/www/vhosts/example.com/subdir/composer.json
rm -rf /var/www/vhosts/example.com/subdir/composer.lock
rm -rf /var/www/vhosts/example.com/subdir/example.gitignore
rm -rf /var/www/vhosts/example.com/subdir/index.php
rm -rf /var/www/vhosts/example.com/subdir/update.php
rm -rf /var/www/vhosts/example.com/subdir/robots.txt
rm -rf /var/www/vhosts/example.com/subdir/web.config

rm -rf /var/www/vhosts/example.com/subdir/drupal-8.8.0/LICENSE.txt
rm -rf /var/www/vhosts/example.com/subdir/drupal-8.8.0/README.txt

cd drupal-8.8.0

mv "core" ../
;mv "modules" ../
;mv "profiles" ../
;mv "sites" ../
;mv "themes" ../
mv "vendor" ../

mv "autoload.php" ../
;mv "composer.json" ../
mv "composer.lock" ../
mv "index.php" ../
mv "robots.txt" ../
mv "update.php" ../
mv "web.config" ../

cd ..

rm -rf /var/www/vhosts/example.com/subdir/drupal-8.8.0

chown your_username:psacln -R /var/www/vhosts/example.com/subdir/core
chown your_username:psacln -R /var/www/vhosts/example.com/subdir/modules
chown your_username:psacln -R /var/www/vhosts/example.com/subdir/profiles
chown your_username:psacln -R /var/www/vhosts/example.com/subdir/themes
chown your_username:psacln -R /var/www/vhosts/example.com/subdir/sites
chown your_username:psacln -R /var/www/vhosts/example.com/subdir/vendor

chown your_username:psacln -R /var/www/vhosts/example.com/subdir/autoload.php
chown your_username:psacln -R /var/www/vhosts/example.com/subdir/composer.lock
chown your_username:psacln -R /var/www/vhosts/example.com/subdir/composer.json
chown your_username:psacln -R /var/www/vhosts/example.com/subdir/index.php
chown your_username:psacln -R /var/www/vhosts/example.com/subdir/robots.txt
chown your_username:psacln -R /var/www/vhosts/example.com/subdir/update.php
chown your_username:psacln -R /var/www/vhosts/example.com/subdir/web.config

composer update

As a general rule, we comment out the paths that we don't want altered.  This is so we have a complete overview of the directory and the elements that we do and don't want updated.