Lin Clark: Installing Drupal 6 using the Command Line with Drush and Twill

While working on code for Drupal 7, I've been creating and dropping databases all over the place. And each time I drop a database, I have to go to my browser and fill out all the site information again.

So this got me thinking... does it really need to be this way? (Spoiler: it doesn't)

A few weeks ago I found Byte Craft kamal's awesome post about twill, a really simple language that lets you fill out HTML forms from the command line, and how it can be used to install your Drupal site without using your browser at all!

In this post, I will expand that solution to show you how you can create scripts to download and install Drupal and then show you a script you can use to automate the recreation of your site when you drop the database.

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