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I downloaded the drush from the drupal website at http://drupal.org/project/drush. I downloaded the 7.x-4.5 version -  I was using mac os x and if you are also using mac os or any other flavour of linux - you should download the tar.gz file.  Drush works best on linux/mac os x - it works on windows as well but has its limitations, although things are improving but you will need to install additional software that allows you to use many drush functions. If you are interested to look at how to install drush on windows then have a look at drush.ws. I did install on my old windows pc as well, got most of it working. Coming back to the topic, we are installing on mac os x - so here goes. The accompanying readme.txt file is quite good in showing what is required, and it really is straight forward. Albeit there are a few differences and may be you would like to customise your installation a little bit - but this is what i did. The first step was to download and extra...

Drush is a feature of Drupal, that really shines. If you have used scripts to automate small administration jobs you will understand how useful this is in your toolkit. Things you can do with drush: 1. Download drupal, download and install modules 2. Enable/Disable and uninstall modules 3. Run cron 4. clear cache and much more. We all know how incredibly helpful drush can be, i am not going to write about this. Rather how to make drush working correctly on windows environment. Drush works best on linux, however a lot of developers use windows machine, and face a little bit of a challenge. Below is the list of things you have to do to make drush work well on windows. I have used the steps below to configure drush on my wamp machine. http://drupal.org/node/594744