so can't use ftp and have installed latest drush in ln -s /usr/local/share/drush/drush /usr/local/bin/drush
then navigated back to root directory of my drupal site and typed in drush in command line and hey presto
it listed commands.

Then i typed in drush update because i have some modules needing updating and i was hoping it would just detect and update but
i must have wrong command because says update command cannot be found.

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oops

SORRY! the command is up not update.

anyway it wouldn't do it for private module so that was a bit of a waste of time.

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drush works on any module. you can run drush up to get a list of modules that require updating then follow the prompts to perform the update.

no

that is not so. drush cannot update private modules that you pay for which is why i can't update pay to publish and ms-core

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lack of clarity: thought you meant http://drupal.org/project/private . what you are referring to is outside of contrib so of course drush can't update those. no different than it can't update custom modules that don't come from drupal.org.