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When you use drush dl normally, it will download drupal into a subdirectory ie: drupal-7.16

I would like to skip creating the subdirectory and just install the drupal root directory files into the pwd or destination directory. ie: /var/www/install.php

Can this be done with drush commands?

Other shell workarounds also welcome and will be considered for answer status if this is impossible with drush.

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  • Be aware that this is an insecure setup. Check some of the comments below for an explanation of a more secure way to do this.
    – bitfed
    Apr 2, 2013 at 10:31

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Reset to default
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drush dl drupal --destination=/var --drupal-project-rename=www
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    Can you expand on how this is different than the other answers?
    – mpdonadio ♦
    Mar 27, 2013 at 23:43
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    MPD: It's different because it actually comes closer to answering the question than Greg's answer.
    – bitfed
    Apr 2, 2013 at 10:21
  • Thanks lunitin! It IS the solution, but to correctly solve the question it would have to be. --destination=/var --drupal-project-rename=www
    – bitfed
    Apr 2, 2013 at 10:23
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Drush usually creates a sub directory, But you can easily copy all the files from this sub directory "/var/www/drupal-7.12" to its upper folder "/var/www/" with this code 

mv * .* ..
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You can specify the name of the destination folder to download Drupal into via the --destination parameter. For example:

$ cd /var
$ drush dl drupal --destination=www

Aside: Note that it's probably better to put your site in /var/www/mysite.org rather than directly in /var/www; someday, you might want to put a second site on the same server.

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    I would go further, and say put it in /var/www/mysite.org/docroot so you can put your private directory in /var/www/mysite.org/private, and make a /var/www/mysite.org/conf for any Apache includes you may need. Changing all of this after the fact can be a pain.
    – mpdonadio ♦
    Nov 4, 2012 at 17:30
  • FWIW, I use the same structure recommended by MPD in all of my Drupal sites.
    – greg_1_anderson
    Nov 5, 2012 at 1:15
  • --destination creates the subdirectory still. The rest is not relevant to the question.
    – bitfed
    Nov 7, 2012 at 9:46

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