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Drush User's Guide

By : Juan Pablo Novillo Requena
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Drush User's Guide

By: Juan Pablo Novillo Requena

Overview of this book

<p>Drush is a command line interface for Drupal. Most of the tasks for building and maintaining a website are repetitive and involve filling in forms on administration pages. The majority of these tasks can be achieved with a single Drush command, shortening the development and maintenance time of a project drastically.</p> <p><em>Drush User's Guide</em> will allow you to be more productive and efficient in building and maintaining your Drupal sites through the command line. You will learn to install Drush on different platforms, and manage and configure your Drupal site by learning how to use and create Drush commands.</p> <p>Become a Drush expert by exploring its command toolkit; customizing it to suit your needs, and extending it with contributed modules.</p> <p>The command line will allow you to download, enable and upgrade Drupal projects in seconds. Back up your files, code and data in one single file, clear the cache, interact with databases, and deploy sites to remote machines - all using simply the command line. Use Drush with your own commands or alter existing ones; and extend the toolkit with a long list of contributed modules.</p> <p><em>Drush User's Guide</em> has everything you need to extend your use of the command line to easily build and manage your Drupal sites.</p>
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Summary


We have gone through the majority of Drush commands. As you may have realized, they have many things in common. This will help you understand and make the most of new commands faster in the future. With the knowledge gained in this chapter, you are now able to deal with Drupal installations, module management, upgrades, cache and image clearing, user management, database handling, backups, tests, and monitoring much more effectively than through the Administration interface. Hopefully, you have also started to feel that the terminal is your friend and a tool to master, in order to progress even further.

In the next chapter, we will learn how to write our own Drush commands, configure Drush to load attributes and arguments automatically, execute commands in remote machines, and altering existing commands to fit our needs.