Drush is the Drupal shell – it is at the same time a toolbox full of useful utilities and a scripting environment to help you quickly divide, conquer and control your Drupal sites.

This chapter will show you how to:

• Get up and running quickly with Drush by setting up some basic configuration options and defining an alias or two for the Drupal sites you're working on.
• Speed up your Drupal site maintenance at the command line with Drush shell enhancements.
• Apply code updates to Drupal core and your installed modules.
• Install Drush extensions to add even more power to Drush.
• Go more in-depth with Drush configuration to further streamline your environment.
• Deploy a site with Drush, and then safely copy back user-contributed content from the live site for further testing and development offline.
• Write shell scripts with Drush.
• Extend Drush by writing your own Drush commands.

Sample chapter - free download

The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7, Chapter 26 - Drush