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Currently I have to disable all of the ubercart modules in bulk, but there are too many of them to do it one at a time via the modules page. And doing it via drush doesn't disable every module related to ubercart sometimes. Is there a quick way to disable these modules via Drush in bulk matching a specific pattern?

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Here's the drush recipe combined with a few other commands to disable modules in bulk:

drush pm-list | ack uc_ | ack Enabled | grep "\((.*)\)" | awk -F'(' '{print $2}' | awk -F')' '{print $1}' | xargs -i drush dis '{}' -y

Broken down:

  1. drush pm-list lists out all of your modules

  2. ack uc_ returns only the lines matching "uc_"

  3. ack Enabled returns only the enabled modules

  4. grep "\((.*)\)" matches the words in parentheses

  5. awk -F'(' '{print $2}' breaks up the line starting with the ( character

  6. awk -F')' '{print $1}' breaks up the line starting with the ) character

  7. xargs -i drush dis '{}' -y runs the returned result into drush disable command with the -y parameter for yes to all.

Thanks to greg_1_anderson, I updated it to be a bit shorter. 

drush pm-list --status=enabled --pipe | grep 'uc_' | xargs -i drush pm-disable '{}' -y
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  • This is cool, but could probably be simplified somewhat using drush pm-list --pipe | grep uc_.
    – greg_1_anderson
    May 31, 2013 at 20:17
  • im sure it can be simplified, its just that im using what i know so far.. kinda long and barbaric i must say.
    – Patoshi パトシ
    May 31, 2013 at 20:19
  • drush pm-list --status=enabled --pipe will return only the enabled modules. Sorry, didn't notice you were awk'ing out the disabled modules. Also, you can drop the awk, since pm-list is outputting one module name per line and nothing more.
    – greg_1_anderson
    May 31, 2013 at 22:39
  • For clarity/readability and making it easier to replace the pattern for non shell experts, perhaps doing it like PATTERN='uc_'; drush pm-list --status=enabled --pipe | grep ${PATTERN} | xargs -i drush pm-disable '{}' -y would be even better, if a bit more verbose.
    – Letharion
    Jun 1, 2013 at 14:15
  • I found I had to remove the xargs -i argument. I think it maybe should be -I (capitalised), but also --pipe returns string rather than separate lines, so that can happily be fed straight into drush pm-*
    – autopoietic
    Oct 15, 2014 at 10:37

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