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Drush commands for every day usage

Drush stands for "Drupal shell" which means a powerful tool for managing Drupal installation from command line interface. Drush provides a lot of useful commands for dealing with a cache, modules, cron, database etc. But some of contrib modules also provide some extra drush commands for specific functionality (like features module comes with commands for managing features). Here's a bunch of a useful drush commands which I use every day.


Cache

# Clear all caches.
drush cc all

# Clear menu cache.
drush cc menu

# Select cache bin for clearing.
drush cc

Modules

# Download module by name. You can grab module
# name from module's page on drupal.org.
drush dl module_name

# Download module by name.
# into sites/default/modules/custom
# directory.
drush dl module_name --destination=sites/default/modules/custom

# Enable module by name.
drush en module_name

# Disable module by name.
drush dis module_name

# Uninstall module by name.
# This commands will call hook_name_uninstall().
drush pmu module_name

# Get list of available modules
# in your Drupal installation.
drush pml

# Check if module module_name
# is available in your Drupal
# installation.
drush pml | grep module_name

User

# Get an one-time login link
# for user by his/her uid.
drush uli uid

# Get an one-time login link
# for user by his/her email.
drush uli [email protected]

# Block user by his/her username.
drush ublk test_user

# Unblock user by his/her username.
drush uublk test_user

# Change password for user by his/her name.
drush upwd --password="password" user_name

Pending database updates

# Run all available database updates
# implemented in hook_update_N() in
# *.install files. 
drush updb

Cron

# Run cron.php. It will call all hook_cron()
# defined in modules and process cron queues.
drush cron

Variables

# Get variable value by name.
drush vget variable_name

# Set variable value by name.
drush vset variable_name "Test value"

# Delete variable by name.
drush vdel variable_name

Registry

# Install registry_rebuild drush extension.
drush dl registry_rebuild

# Rebuild Drupal registry. Usefull when some of
# modules was moved into another folder.
drush rr

Features

# Get list of available features.
drush fl

# Get list of overridden features. Please
# note if you have multilingual site and
# site active language is not english then
# you have to replace word "Overridden" by
# it's translation.
drush fl | grep Overridden

# Show diff of overridden feature by name.
drush fd feature_name

# Update feature by name. Put changes from
# database into a code.
drush fu feature_name

# Revert feature by name. Restore database
# state from a code.
drush fr feature_name

Sql interface

# Show information about current database connection
# that defined in settings.php file.
drush sql-connect

# Login into sql console interface.
drush sqlc

# Execute a query.
drush sqlq "SELECT * from node;"

# Restore database dump from dump_name.sql file.
drush sqlc < dump_name.sql

# Save database dump into dump_name.sql.gz file.
drush sql-dump --gzip --result-file=dump_name.sql.gz

Other

# Run custom php code.
drush eval "variable_set('site_name', 'Test site name');"

# Get all dblog messages in realtime (tail style).
# Useful when you want to debug a remote Drupal
# installation where you have ssh access.
drush ws --tail

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