Richard Castera

What is Drush?

It's a command line shell and scripting interface for Drupal. The Drush Package Manager allows you to download, enable, disable, uninstall, update modules/themes/profiles/translations from the command line in a very simple way (apt-get style) - just type,

 drush dl views 

and

 drush pm-enable views 

Additionally, the Drush Package Manager also allows you to update all your modules and even Drupal core with just one command,

 drush pm-update 

How to install Drush

1. Download the current version of the Drush Package from the Drupal website.
2. Upload the folder to the root directory of your server. I did this on a shared environment.
3. Login to your server via shell.
4. Make the 'drush' command executable:

   $ chmod u+x ~/drush/drush

5. create an alias to drush:

   $ alias drush='~/drush/drush'

   Now, 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

6. Start using drush by running "drush" from your Drupal root directory.