The Most Frequently Used Drush Commands

Drush Commands Cheat Sheet

If you are into Drupal development and a vivid user of GNU/ Linux (or *nix) for a while, then Drush is a must-learn tool for you. As a part of the Drupal development project, we extensively use Drush. A few commands that help us develop sites at the phase of the client's expectation are briefed below,

1. drush cc [type]:- Clears a specific cache or all Drupal caches.

Example

$ drush cc all

$ drush cc menu

2. drush sql-sync:- Copy and import source database to target database. Transfers via rsync

Example

$ drush sql-sync @dev.mysite @local.mysite

3. drush sql-dump:- Exports the Drupal DB as SQL using mysqldump

Example

$ drush sql-dump > /path/to/backup_dir/database-backup.sql

4. drush sql-connect:- Gives string for connecting to DB

Example

$ drush sql-connect

$ `drush sql-connect`

Example

To rsync the entire site

$ drush rsync @dev @stage

$ drush rsync @dev:%files @stage:%files

$ drush pm-list

$ drush dl views

$ drush dis overlay

$ drush en -y views

$ drush scr filename.php

10. drush features-list:- List all the available features for your site.

Example

$ drush features-list

$ drush features-revert frontpage

$ drush sql-drop

Do you really want to drop all tables(y/n) :

Drupal version         : 7.12

Site URI               : http://default                              

Database driver        : mysql

Database hostname      : localhost

Database username      : root

Database name          : example

Database               : Connected

Drupal bootstrap       : Successful

Drupal user            : Anonymous

Default theme          : custom

Administration theme   : seven

PHP configuration      : /etc/php5/cli/php.ini

Drush version          : 4.5

Drush configuration    :

Drush alias files      : /home/user/.drush/example.alias.drushrc.php

Drupal root            : /home/user/Public/project

Site path              : sites/default

File directory path    : sites/default/files

14. drush cron:- Triggers drupal cron run.

Example

$ drush cron