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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)

Using configuration files


Drush lets us set up configuration files that modify how it works system-wide, user-wide, or site-wide. These files are named drushrc.php and contain a list of array options. With a configuration file, we can do things such as the following:

  • Set the --uri and --root options to be added to every command that we execute from the root path of a multisite Drupal installation

  • Automatically check for Drush updates

  • Load additional site alias files located in a given directory

  • Specify where to store database dumps, which tables to ignore completely, and which one's data to ignore

  • Always display verbose information on each command

  • Add options when a specific command is executed

  • Override elements of the variables table of a site

Drush will look for configuration files in the following locations (extracted from drush topic docs-configuration):

  • Next to a settings.php file of a Drupal site. For example, at sites/default/drushrc.php or sites/drupal.localhost/drushrc.php.

  • The root directory...