Drush installed in local directory but command not found?

Question

I know that Drush is a huge time saver so I'm trying to get familiar with it but I keep getting

command not found

error after installation. I've required and removed Drush a couple of times just to make sure I'm doing this correctly.

Here's what I did:

$ cd mydrupal
$ composer require drush/drush

After I run the above command many things install:

Using version ^9.3 for drush/drush

./composer.json has been updated

Loading composer repositories with package information

Updating dependencies (including require-dev)

Package operations: 57 installs, 0 updates, 0 removals

• Installing... (many things download and install (100%))

And I end up with this:

Writing lock file

Generating autoload files

Drupal\Core\Composer\Composer::preAutoloadDump Drupal\Core\Composer\Composer::ensureHtaccess

Then I get my command line prompt and I run

$ drush status

and I get this:

-bash: drush: command not found

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You are calling a global command. Which is not installed or symlinked into one of your Mac's autoloaded bin directories (or is not added to your global $PATH).

Simplest option you have now is to use the local command:

$ cd mydrupal
$ vendor/drush/drush/drush status

Alternatively you may want to install Drush Launcher on your Mac (to be used together with the Composer template for Drupal projects). Which when you are inside a project that has a local Drush installed automatically associates the global drush command to the project's local Drush.

Answer 2

I had this issue and it was due to config_sync_directory not being defined in settings.php. Example...

  $settings['config_sync_directory'] = 'sites/default/files';