DESCRIPTION ----------- Drush is a command line shell and Unix scripting interface for Drupal. If you are unfamiliar with shell scripting, reviewing the documentation for your shell (e.g. man bash) or reading an online tutorial (e.g. search for "bash tutorial") will help you get the most out of Drush. Drush core ships with lots of useful commands for interacting with code like modules/themes/profiles. Similarly, it runs update.php, executes sql queries and DB migrations, and misc utilities like run cron or clear cache. REQUIREMENTS ------------ * To use drush from the command line, you'll need a CLI-mode capable PHP binary. The minimum PHP version is 5.2. * Drush 4 does not support Windows; see "For Windows", below. * Drush works with Drupal 5, Drupal 6 and Drupal 7. However, occasionally recent changes to the most recent version of Drupal can introduce issues with drush. On Drupal 5, drush requires update_status v5.x-2.5 or later in order to use pm-updatecode. If you have an earlier version of update_status, upgrade it via "drush dl update_status" before using pm-updatecode. INSTALLATION ------------ For Linux/Unix/Mac: 1. Untar the tarball into a folder outside of your web site (/path/to/drush) (e.g. if drush is in your home directory, ~/drush can be used for /path/to/drush) 2. Make the 'drush' command executable: $ chmod u+x /path/to/drush/drush 3. (Optional, but recommended:) To ease the use of drush, - create a link to drush in a directory that is in your PATH, e.g.: $ ln -s /path/to/drush/drush /usr/local/bin/drush OR - add the folder that contains drush to your PATH PATH=$PATH:/path/to/drush This goes into .profile, .bash_aliases or .bashrc in your home folder. NOTE: You must log out and then log back in again or re-load your bash configuration file to apply your changes to your current session: $ source .bashrc NOTE FOR ADVANCED USERS - If you want to run drush with a specific version of php, rather than the one found by the drush command, you can define an environment variable DRUSH_PHP that points to the php to execute: export DRUSH_PHP=/usr/bin/php5 OR - If you want to exactly control how drush is called, you may define an alias that executes the drush.php file directly and passes that path to drush: $ alias drush='/path/to/php/php5 -d memory_limit=128M /path/to/drush/drush.php --php="/path/to/php/php5 -d memory_limit=128M"' Note that it is necessary to pass the '--php' option to drush to define how drush should call php if it needs to do so. If you define an alias, to allow Drush to detect the number of available columns, you need to add the line 'export COLUMNS' to the .profile file in your home folder. NOTE ON PHP.INI FILES - Usually, php is configured to use separate php.ini files for the web server and the command line. To see which php.ini file drush is using, run: $ drush status - Compare the php.ini that drush is using with the php.ini that the webserver is using. Make sure that drush's php.ini is given as much memory to work with as the web server is; otherwise, Drupal might run out of memory when drush bootstraps it. - Drush requires a fairly unrestricted php environment to run in. In particular, you should insure that safe_mode, open_basedir, disable_functions and disable_classes are empty. - If drush is using the same php.ini file as the web server, you can create a php.ini file exclusively for drush by copying your web server's php.ini file to the folder $HOME/.drush or the folder /etc/drush. Then you may edit this file and change the settings described above without affecting the php enviornment of your web server. Alternately, if you only want to override a few values, copy example.drush.ini from the "examples" folder into $HOME/.drush or the folder /etc/drush and edit to suit. See comments in example.drush.ini for more details. 4. Start using drush by running "drush" from your Drupal root directory. (or, if you did not follow step 3, by running "/path/to/drush/drush" or navigating to /path/to/drush and running "./drush" ) If you have troubles, try using the -l and -r options when invoking drush. See below. For Windows: - Drush 4 does not support Windows. Consider using Drush 3 or Drush 5 instead. - Consider using on Linux/Unix/OSX using Virtualbox or other VM. Windows support is lacking. - The Drush 5 Windows installer can be found at http://drush.ws/drush_windows_installer. - Instructions for installing Drush 3 on Windows can be found at http://drupal.org/node/594744. USAGE ----- Once installed and setup, you can use drush as follows while in any Drupal directory: $ drush [options] [argument1] [argument2] Use the 'help' command to get a list of available options and commands: $ drush help For even more documentation, use the 'topic' command: $ drush topic For multisite installations, you might need to use the -l or other command line options just to get drush to work: $ drush -l http://example.com help Related Options: -r , --root= Drupal root directory to use (default: current directory or anywhere in a Drupal directory tree) -l , --uri= URI of the drupal site to use (only needed in multisite environments) -v, --verbose Display verbose output. --php The absolute path to your php binary. NOTE: If you do not specify a URI with -l and drush falls back to the default site configuration, Drupal's $GLOBAL['base_url'] will be set to http://default. This may cause some functionality to not work as expected. The drush core-cli command provide a customized bash shell or lets you enhance your usual shell with its --pipe option. Many commands support a --pipe option which returns machine readable output. See `drush pm-list --status=enabled --pipe` as an example. Very intensive scripts can exhaust your available PHP memory. One remedy is to just restart automatically using bash. For example: while true; do drush search-index; sleep 5; done EXAMPLES -------- Inside the "examples" folder you will find some example files to help you get started with your drush configuration file (example.drushrc.php), site alias definitions (example.aliases.drushrc.php) and drush commands (sandwich.drush.inc). You will also see an example 'policy' file which can be customized to block certain commands or arguments as your organization needs. DRUSHRC.PHP -------- If you get tired of typing options all the time, you can add them to your drush.php alias or create a drushrc.php file. These provide additional options for your drush call. They provide great flexibility for a multi-site installation, for example. See example.drushrc.php. SITE ALIASES -------- Drush lets you run commands on a remote server, or even on a set of remote servers. See http://drupal.org/node/670460 and example.aliases.drushrc.php for more information. COMMANDS -------- Drush ships with a number of commands, but you can easily write your own. In fact, writing a drush command is no harder than writing simple Drupal modules, since drush command files closely follow the structure of ordinary Drupal modules. See sandwich.drush.inc for light details on the internals of a drush command file. Otherwise, the core commands in drush are good models for your own commands. You can put your drush command file in a number of places: - In a folder specified with the --include option (see `drush topic docs-configuration`). - Along with one of your existing modules. If your command is related to an existing module, this is the preferred approach. - In a .drush folder in your HOME folder. Note, that you have to create the .drush folder yourself. - In the system-wide drush commands folder, e.g. /usr/share/drush/commands In any case, it is important that you end the filename with ".drush.inc", so that drush can find it. FAQ --- Q: What does "drush" stand for? A: The Drupal Shell. Q: How do I pronounce drush? A: Some people pronounce the dru with a long u like drupal. Fidelity points go to them, but they are in the minority. Most pronounce drush so that it rhymes with hush, rush, flush, etc. This is the preferred pronunciation. CREDITS ------- Originally developed by Arto Bendiken for Drupal 4.7. Redesigned by Franz Heinzmann (frando) in May 2007 for Drupal 5. Maintained by Moshe Weitzman with much help from Owen Barton, Adrian Rossouw, greg.1.anderson, jonhattan.