This document provides an overview of how to install and use Drush, a command line shell and scripting interface for Drupal, covering basic commands, advanced commands, SQL commands, shell commands, log messages, and third party commands. It explains how to download, install, and set up Drush, and describes many useful Drush commands for site building, maintenance, and administration tasks in Drupal.

1. Drush More Beer Less Effort

2. Drush More Beer, Less Effort Overview * Install * Basic Commands * Advanced Commands * Drush SQL Commands * Drush Shell Commands * Drush Log Messages * Third Party Commands

3. Drush More Beer, Less Effort Install

4. Drush More Beer, Less Effort http://www.drupal.org/project/drush Drush More Beer, Less Effort Install Browse Drush Project Web Site

5. Drush More Beer, Less Effort wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drush-All-Versions-3.0.tar.gz Install Download Latest Drush Package

6. Drush More Beer, Less Effort tar xvzf drush-All-Versions-3.0.tar.gz Install Uncompress Drush Package

7. Drush More Beer, Less Effort ln -s /path/to/drush/drush.php /usr/bin/drush Install Create symbolic link to Drush Script

8. Drush More Beer, Less Effort vim /etc/php5/cli/php.ini Install max_execution_time = 90 max_input_time = 180 max_input_nesting_level = 64 memory_limit = 256M

9. Drush More Beer, Less Effort Basic Commands

10. Drush More Beer, Less Effort cd /var/www/drupal/sites/sitename Basic Commands Go to your site directory

11. Drush More Beer, Less Effort drush help Basic Commands Show information about drush sysntax

12. Drush More Beer, Less Effort drush help <command> Basic Commands Show command-specific information

13. Drush More Beer, Less Effort drush st Basic Commands Show some useful information about your site and server configuration

14. Drush More Beer, Less Effort drush sm Basic Commands Show a list of available modules and themes

15. Drush More Beer, Less Effort drush pm-info <project> ... Basic Commands Show detailed info about projects

16. Drush More Beer, Less Effort drush pm-releases <project> ... Basic Commands Show all releases about a project (module, theme, profile, translation)

17. Drush More Beer, Less Effort drush dl <project> <project>... Basic Commands Download Drupal Core, modules, themes, profiles, translations to a site specific directory or default site directory

18. Drush More Beer, Less Effort drush en <project> <project>... Basic Commands Enable modules and themes and it's dependant modules as well

19. Drush More Beer, Less Effort drush dis <project> <project>... Basic Commands Disable modules and themes and it's dependant modules as well

20. Drush More Beer, Less Effort drush pm-uninstall <project>... Basic Commands Uninstall modules and themes (Must disable before uninstall them)

21. Drush More Beer, Less Effort Advanced Commands

22. Drush More Beer, Less Effort drush cron Advanced Commands Run all cron hooks in all active modules

23. Drush More Beer, Less Effort drush cc Advanced Commands Delete specific Drupal cache or all caches

24. Drush More Beer, Less Effort drush updb Advanced Commands Run update.php script as a web browser

25. Drush More Beer, Less Effort drush up Advanced Commands Display available update information and allow updating of all installed projects to the specified version

26. Drush More Beer, Less Effort drush upc Advanced Commands Display available update information and allow updating of all installed project code to the specified version

27. Drush More Beer, Less Effort drush eval ”php code” Advanced Commands Run php code in the context of Drupal

28. Drush More Beer, Less Effort Drush SQL Commands

29. Drush More Beer, Less Effort drush sql-conf Drush SQL Commands Show database connection details

30. Drush More Beer, Less Effort drush sql-connect Drush SQL Commands Database connection string

31. Drush More Beer, Less Effort drush sqlq ”query” Drush SQL Commands Execute query against the site database

32. Drush More Beer, Less Effort drush sqlc Drush SQL Commands Open a SQL command-line interface using Drupal's credentials

33. Drush More Beer, Less Effort drush sql-dump Drush SQL Commands Exports the Drupal database using mysqldump

34. Drush More Beer, Less Effort Drush Shell Commands

35. Drush More Beer, Less Effort drush cli Drush Shell Commands Enter a new shell optimized for drush use CTRL+D for Exit

36. Drush More Beer, Less Effort drush> cdd Drush Shell Commands Navigate to your Drupal root directory

37. Drush More Beer, Less Effort drush> cdd <module> Drush Shell Commands Navigate to module directory

38. Drush More Beer, Less Effort drush> lsd Drush Shell Commands List your Drupal root directory content

39. Drush More Beer, Less Effort drush> lsd <module> Drush Shell Commands List module directory content

40. Drush More Beer, Less Effort drush> sa Drush Shell Commands List all alias records known to Drush

41. Drush More Beer, Less Effort drush> on @alias <command> Drush Shell Commands Executes command on @alias site

42. Drush More Beer, Less Effort Drush Log Messages

43. Drush More Beer, Less Effort drush wd-show Drush Log Messages Show watchdog messages

44. Drush More Beer, Less Effort drush wd-list Drush Log Messages Show available message types and severity levels

45. Drush More Beer, Less Effort drush wd-del Drush Log Messages Delete watchdog messages

46. Drush More Beer, Less Effort Third Party Commands

47. Drush More Beer, Less Effort Devel module Third Party Commands Some third party modules provide more Drush commands that become available automatically

48. Drush More Beer, Less Effort drush genc <nodes> <max-comments> Third Party Commands Generate nodes and comments automatically

49. Drush More Beer, Less Effort drush gent <vid> <num-terms> Third Party Commands Generate taxonomy terms for a given vocabulary

50. Drush More Beer, Less Effort drush genu <num-users> Third Party Commands Generate user accounts

51. Drush More Beer, Less Effort Questions?