Drush is an awesome shell interface for managing Drupal right from your server command line. It is a very useful tool as it helps you perform various admin tasks using just one or two commands in the terminal
Find your appropriated Drush version for your Drupal
http://docs.drush.org/en/master/install/
https://github.com/drush-ops/drush/
cd wget https://github.com/drush-ops/drush/archive/master.zip unzip master.zip mv drush-master/ drush/ chmod u+x drush/drush echo "alias drush='~/drush/drush'" >> ~/.bashrc echo "alias composer='~/drush/composer.phar'" >> ~/.bashrc source ~/.bashrc
Test how it works
drush core-statusInstalling Composer if required
cd drush
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
php composer.phar install
Some useful commands:
drush help drush pm-update drush sql-dump --result-file=database_name.sql drush cc drush cc all drush cache-rebuild drush pm-list
To update only Drupal core:
drush up drupal
List of enabled modules:
drush pm-list --type=Module --status=enabled
drush pm-list --type=Module --no-core --status=enabledCheck if updates available:
drush upsTo update only the module Views:
drush up views
To update Views, Token and Rules modules:
drush up views token rules
To update all contrib modules but not the Drupal core:
drush up --no-core
DB update
drush updatedb
One time login link
drush user-login admin