Installing drush

So we've all established that Drush is the bee's knees for running drupal installations. Right?

So tonight I had to install it on a server where I have limited rights.

This was the process (based on perusing the README.txt):

# install drush

dv=7.x-5.8

ptd=~/bin/drushfiles/$dv

wget -P ~ http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drush-$dv.tar.gz

mkdir -p $ptd

tar -xf ~/drush-$dv.tar.gz -C $ptd

chmod u+x $ptd/drush/drush

ln -sf $ptd/drush/drush ~/bin/drush

ln -sf $ptd/drush/examples/example.bashrc ~/bin/drush.bashrc

# put drush.bashrc into .bashrc

if grep -Fq "drush.bashrc" .bashrc
then
 echo "you already have drush.bashrc in your .bashrc, so no action taken"

else

 echo "drush.bashrc added to you .bashrc"

 echo "source ~/bin/drush.bashrc" >> .bashrc

fi

# tidy up
rm ~/drush-$dv.tar.gz

The bit I like best is greping the .bashrc so I only add the require line once.

I also had to track down php-cli that drush was complaining about. So I just used locate then made a link:

locate php-cli
ln -sf /hsphere/shared/php53/bin/php-cli bin/php-cli