[support] support Digest, Vol 105, Issue 27

[Brett Evanson]

I think this is actually talking about aliases at the drush level,
where you can use @dev as a shortcut to a particular install of
drupal, instead of aliases meaning symlinks at the linux level.

Brett Evanson





On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Benj Fredrick <benj.fredrick at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is from the 'examples/example.aliases.drush.php' file that ships with
> drush:
>  * Aliases are commonly used to define short names for
>  * local or remote Drupal installations; however, an alias
>  * is really nothing more than a collection of options.
>  * A canonical alias named "dev" that points to a local
>  * Drupal site named "dev.mydrupalsite.com" looks like this:
>  *
>  *   $aliases['dev'] = array(
>  *     'root' => '/path/to/drupal',
>  *     'uri' => 'dev.mydrupalsite.com',
>  *   );
>  *
>  * With this alias definition, then the following commands
>  * are equivalent:
>  *
>  *   $ drush @dev status
>  *   $ drush --root=/path/to/drupal --uri=dev.mydrupalsite.com status
>  *
>  * Any option that can be placed on the drush commandline
>  * can also appear in an alias definition.
>  *
>  * There are several ways to create alias files.
>  *
>  *   + Put each alias in a separate file called ALIASNAME.alias.drushrc.php
>  *   + Put multiple aliases in a single file called aliases.drushrc.php
>  *   + Put groups of aliases into files called GROUPNAME.aliases.drushrc.php
> check out the example file for more details :) (with aliases, you can "be"
> anywhere on your system and run drush commands)
> -Benj
>
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Roger <arelem at bigpond.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 15/09/11 13:06, support-request at drupal.org wrote:
>> > I 2nd this opinion - drush isn't sure which of your multi-sites you are
>> > trying to target. You'll either need to set up drush aliases or 'cd' to
>> > the
>> > specific multi-site you want to affect.
>> >
>> > -Benj
>> Thanks Benj.  How do I set up drush aliases? Maybe I could use such a
>> thing to flush without having to change diretories
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