Drush: How to Get Started

Drush or The Drupal Shell often serves as a utility knife for Drupal developers. It is a command line utility and UNIX scripting interface for Drupal. Drush allows access to common Drupal features and tasks through the command line. 

Promet Source has published a new blog post describing Drush's uses and methods. Promet Source is a web development company that is also involved in training. According to the blog post, there are three main advantages of using Drush:

• Drush speeds up development. The user can look for a command using Drush's help.
• Drush is faster for PHP to execute.
• Drush enables automation. With Drush, the developer can make a script to enable many modules in a row, apply some updates, clear the cache, etc.

The blog post also contains guides to help anyone startup and execute Drush. How-to guides are given for the following tasks:

• Enabling a Module with Drush
• Disabling a Module with Drush
• Logging into Drupal with Drush
• Installing Drush Using Composer

For more details, read the blog post published by Promet Source.