DRUSH A Beginners Guide To An Advanced Tool

By Roger Soper
Mediacurrent Consultant

South East Linux FestJune 13, 2010

Project Information

drush is a command line shell and Unix scripting interface for Drupal, a veritable Swiss Army knife designed to make life easier for those of us who spend some of our working hours hacking away at the command prompt.

More information can be found at the Drupal project page at: http://drupal.org/project/drush

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Vitae

I'm a Drupal developer who has over 10 years of information technology experience in a variety of languages and platforms.

For 3+ years, I've worked exclusively on Drupal based sites for a national publishing company and now I'm a member of the Mediacurrent team.

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Getting started

Google is your friend :-)

For shared hosting:

http://mediacurrent.com/blogs/learning-how-install-drush-non-admin-rights-server

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The Goal

Save time and minimize effort:

Quick Video (how fun)

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5207683&server=vimeo.com

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Drupal + Drush = Awesome

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Drush Command Return

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Command line:

Oh no not the command line!!!!

Relax... its not that bad ;-)

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What can DRUSH do for you?

Some of the basic common commands

status, pm-releases, download, enable, disable, clear cache

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Status Command

Provides a birds-eye view of the current Drupal installation, if any.

core-status (status, st)ex: drush status

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pm-releases Command

Release information for a project

pm-releasesex: drush pm-releases

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pm-releases Command Return

This is body copy

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Download Command

Download core Drupal and projects like CCK, Zen, etc.

pm-download (dl)ex: drush dl locationex: drush dl location-3.0-rc2

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Download Command Return

This is body copy

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Enable Command

Enable one or more modules or themes.

pm-enable (en)ex: drush en location

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Enable Command Return

This is body copy

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Disable Command

Disable one or more modules or themes.

pm-disable (dis)ex: drush dis location

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Disable Command Return

This is body copy

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Clear Cache Command

Clear a specific cache, or all drupal caches.

cache-clear (cc)ex: drush cc

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Lessons learned

Ease of useFile manipulationConfiguration stepsSpeed

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Other useful features

Sql-cli - SQL command-line interfaceSql-dump - Exports the Drupal DB as SQL using mysqldumpVariable-set - Set a variableCron - Run all cron hooks

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References

http://drupal.org/project/drushDrush documentation

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