Drush Usage and Commands

• 05 April 2014
• TODO,
• drupal,
• drush

The traditional drush command reference site is drush.ws but a newer one has just recently popped up - Drush Commands. Both are good although I don't think drush.ws is being updated because the most recent version it documents is 5.

The following are examples of some of the ways I use Drush.

• Do a fresh drupal install.

drush dl drupal-7.x --drupal-project-rename=sitename.com
cd sitename.com
drush si --db-url=mysql://dbuser:dbpassword@localhost:port/dbname

• To download, install, and enable a module.

drush en module_name -y

• Clear cache

drush cc

• Update Drupal core and contrib projects and apply any pending database updates (Same as pm-updatecode + updatedb). This lists the pending updates and asks if you want to continue. Remember to take a copy of ".htaccess" and "robots.txt" before doing a core update so you can integrate any changes afterwards.

drush up

• Print site alias records for all known site aliases and local sites.

drush sa

• Open a SQL command-line interface using Drupal's credentials.

drush sqlc

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