Drush is a command line shell and scripting interface for Drupal that allows users to perform administrative tasks and common commands from the terminal instead of through a web browser. It can be used to download and update Drupal core and modules, enable or disable modules, clear caches, run cron jobs, and more with just a few keystrokes. Drush requires a Linux server with PHP CLI and shell access, and can be installed by downloading a tarball or checking out from CVS and then configuring drushrc.php files.

1. Introducing Drush: Command line productivity for Drupal

2. What is Drush? Drush is a command line shell and Unix scripting interface for Drupal. Introducing Drush: Command line productivity for Drupal

3. What is Drush? Drush is a command line shell and Unix scripting interface for Drupal. In other words... It's a time-saving tool for issuing commands to Drupal via the command line instead of through the browser and for automating common server administration and maintenance tasks. Introducing Drush: Command line productivity for Drupal

4. What can I do with it? Download and update Drupal core and contributed modules

5. Enable, disable, and uninstall modules

6. Clear caches

7. Run cron

8. Get, set, and delete system variables

9. Execute PHP after a full bootstrap or SQL using site credentials ...with a few keystrokes. Introducing Drush: Command line productivity for Drupal

10. Installing Drush What you need: A Linux server (or Windows with some additions. See http://drupal.org/node/594744 ) with PHP CLI 5

11. Shell access and an SSH client (e.g. Terminal for Mac/Linux or Putty for Windows) Introducing Drush: Command line productivity for Drupal

12. Installing Drush Getting Drush: Download the latest tarball from http://drupal.org/project/drush or Checkout from CVS: cvs -z6 -d:pserver:anonymous:anonymous@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal-contrib checkout -d DRUPAL-6--3-0-RC1 -r DRUPAL-6--3-0-BETA1 contributions/modules/drush/ Introducing Drush: Command line productivity for Drupal

13. Installing Drush Updating Drush: Download, extract, overwrite, rinse and repeat or Update from CVS: cvs update -r DRUPAL-6--3-0-RC1 -dP Introducing Drush: Command line productivity for Drupal

14. Installing Drush Subscribing to updates: http://drupal.org/node/97249/release/feed Introducing Drush: Command line productivity for Drupal

15. Installing Drush Creating a bash alias: Add to .bashrc or /etc/bashrc: alias drush='php /usr/bin/drush/drush.php' Introducing Drush: Command line productivity for Drupal

16. Configuring Drush Copy example.drushrc.php to drushrc.php

17. Uncomment and modify statements 31. $options['allow-spaces-in-commands' ] = 1; 43. $options['package-handler'] = 'cvs'; Introducing Drush: Command line productivity for Drupal

18. Demonstration Introducing Drush: Command line productivity for Drupal

19. Other modules that support Drush: Backup and Migrate http://drupal.org/project/backup_migrate

20. XML sitemap http://drupal.org/project/xmlsitemap

21. Node Export http://drupal.org/project/node_export

22. Drush Make http://drupal.org/project/drush_make

23. http://drupal.org/taxonomy/term/4654 Introducing Drush: Command line productivity for Drupal

24. Learn more: http://drupal.org/project/drush Introducing Drush: Command line productivity for Drupal