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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Batch update modules or themes of Drupal 6/7 in command line

To update Drupal modules, you need to download manually all modules and this can quickly become tedious. Especially if you have multiple modules and Drupal installations.

I wrote a simple script that parse the module's page and install or update the most up-to-date version.

This works for themes as well. To use it, simply go into a modules or themes folder and run one of the tool.

Valid folders are:
  • /modules
  • /themes
  • /sites/all/modules
  • /sites/all/themes
  • /sites/*/modules
  • /sites/*/themes
However, not that you should not try to update root folders, they are reserved for core modules and are updated with Drupal.

drupal-install-module.sh will install or update one module, drupal-update-modules.sh will batch update all modules in current folder.

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2 comments:

  1. RenatoOctober 10, 2012 at 5:53 PM

    It's nice man!

    But I have to suggest you to take a look at Drush (http://drupal.org/project/drush). You can do a bunch o things on command line with it. You can, for example, update modules and themes just running the "drush up" command.

    Regards.

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  2. Sebastien LavoieOctober 11, 2012 at 1:01 PM

    Wow, I can’t believe I missed that, this is exactly what I was looking for when I scripted my little tool.

    Thanks

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