hi, i guess im still a beginner in drush as i dont really use all the commands. i haven't gotten to use devel yet as i dont see the usefulness of it yet.
but as for drush, ill share my experience with how i use it. i have a multi-site drupal code base and drush is a lifesaver having to enable, disable, and updatedb for each site. im maintaining about 5 sites now and all i use drush for is just enabling and disabling modules mainly.
Is there something else i might be missing that everyone uses frequently? like deleting users or nodes or what not?
the only problem right now is that i cant do an drush update since it messes everything up. I do have SVN acquia installed so im guessing that is why. another major pain is everytime i install new modules or cvs update them i have to goto each site and do a updatedb. is there a script that i can copy that can run all this for me?
The only commands i really use is:
drush --uri=http://domain.com enable
drush --uri=http://domain.com disable
drush --uri=http://domain.com uninstall
drush --uri=http://domain.com statusmodules | ack enabled (To show all enabled modules only.)
drush --uri=http://domain.com updatedb
drush --uri=http://domain.com clearcache
yea so how does everyone else use drush?
thanks!
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You may create a bash script
You may create a bash script and use that to combine multiple instructions.
I'm on Linux and I use a bash script to backup a multi-site install I have.
Basically what the script does is put the site offline, backup the database of site1, archive the sites folder {sites/site1} with the exported database, puts the site online again. It does this for every website under /site, afterwards, using scp it, copies everything to a backup computer and then deletes the files on the server which where just copied.
I run it using a cron job
Interesting. I was wondering,
Interesting. I was wondering, why use Drush for this, as opposed to straight up line commands? I'm assuming there is some benefit I'm missing. Maybe just the ability to avoid hard-coding a password into a script?
Also, much of this can be done using the backup_migrate module, and I see (http://groups.drupal.org/drush/commands) that drush plays nice with this module. Anyone use this?
I'll also second the call for many more examples and toss in a request for more documentation. More examples and documentation explaining things like the above would certainly help people to adapt this powerful tool.
Sala kahle,
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Did you see that cheatsheet
Did you see that cheatsheet on the documentation page of Drush?
http://drupal.org/files/drush-cheat-sheet.pdf
Might be usefull for you!
==[EDIT]==
You also have that link: http://groups.drupal.org/drush/commands
(via @Julien Dubreuil http://twitter.com/juliendubreuil/statuses/6298597819)
thanks.. great tips. the
thanks.. great tips. the cheat sheet should have some examples of how the commands are used as it still seems a bit confusing just reading the parameters.
is there a way to delete users or nodes or group of nodes via drush?
Useful combination
Yes, you can write a custom php script and execute it with 'drush script'. In your php script you will have access to the entire drupal api.
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thanks. yeah i understand
thanks. yeah i understand that, but is there a sample code where i can copy and modify. I have no idea how to start.
Drush 3.x uses shorter commands
This article points out how the new Drush 3.x allows shorter commands for common commands. http://developmentseed.org/blog/2010/mar/10/drush-30-more-powerful-flexi...
For example (quoted from the blog post):
drush --root=/path/to/drupal --uri=dev.mysite.com statusWhile the above example will still work, you now have the option to do the following:
drush /path/to/drupal#dev.mysite.com statusYou can also now do commands that weren't possible before, like:
drush username@server.com/path/to/drupal#mysite.com statusChris Charlton, Author & Drupal Community Leader, Enterprise Level Consultant
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DevSeed link doesn't work
I don't know if this post has been taken down or what, but the link in the above posts to the drush blog post goes to a 404 on DevSeed site.
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