How to Install Drush CLI for Drupal 7 on Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite Easy Guide

Install Drush 7 for Drupal 7 on macOS

Hi! The Tutorial shows you Step-by-Step How to Install Drush Command Line Interface for Drupal 7 on macOS 10.10 Yosemite Desktop.

Drush is a command line shell and Unix scripting interface for Drupal. If you are unfamiliar with shell scripting, reviewing the documentation for your shell (e.g. man bash) or reading an online tutorial (e.g. search for “bash tutorial”) will help you get the most out of Drush.

1. Open a Terminal Shell Emulator
   Applications > Utilities > Terminal
   (Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)

   

   In case first see: Terminal QuickStart Guide.

2. Install PHP5 Composer for macOS

   Installing Composer on Mac

   Setup

3. Installing Drush CLi for Drupal8 on macOS.

   composer global require drush/drush:dev-master

4. Insert Drush into User Path.

   echo "export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin" > $HOME/.bashrc

   source $HOME/.bashrc

5. Testing Drush Installation.

   which drush

6. Getting Started with Drush 7 CLI Commands

   Drush 7 Commands Quick Start

   Commands