Drush

Drush is a command line shell and scripting interface for Drupal, a veritable Swiss Army knife designed to make life easier for those of us who spend some of our working hours hacking away at the command prompt.

Misc

• www.drush.org
• A list of modules that include Drush integration
• Drush is not a module, and does not participate in the usage statistics system at drupal.org

Install

The easiest way to install the latest release of Drush on Unix/Linux systems is via our custom PEAR channel. (See below for Windows-specific instructions)

Tip: Use sudo to overcome permission problems. If the channel-discover fails, try running the following sequence of commands:

To get alternate drush versions, replace that last line with one of the below that matches your fancy.

• Beloved Windows users. There is a convenient Drush installer for Windows available on www.drush.org. This is drush5, since drush4 does not work with Windows.
• If you are using Debian or Ubuntu, you can also use the Debian packages
  uploaded in your distribution. You may need to use the backports to get
  the latest version, if you are running a LTS or "stable" release.
• Note that Drush5+ works with three versions of Drupal (6,7,8). Use Drush 4 for Drupal 5.

History

Drush was originally developed by Arto for Drupal 4.7. In May 2007, it was partly rewritten and redesigned for Drupal 5 by frando. The module is now maintained by Moshe Weitzman, Owen Barton, greg.1.anderson, jonhattan, and Mark Sonnabaum.

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