Mage_Shell scripts to help manage Magento installations.

Magento contains a little-known shell abstract class to manage Magento via CLI. While there are a few concrete classes, the core doesn't ship with much functionality. This projects aims to augment the CLI interface and provide some useful tools.

• cache.php: All functionality that exists in the admin cache management panel. Plus some more! Really useful in deployment scripts.
• magentodump.php: Create a database backup using mysqldump. Also can clean customer and order data from core tables to create a database dump that can be used for synchronizing environments such as local/dev/stage, etc.
• snapshot.php: Create a compressed tar archive of the /media directory and a database dump into a directory called /snapshot. Useful for developers bootstrapping their local environments off of an existing development environment.

You can use this shell script like the other Magento shells. Help is provided.

Here's example help output from the cache tool:

Usage:  php -f cache.php -- [options]
  info                          Show Magento cache types.
  --enable <cachetype>          Enable caching for a cachetype.
  --disable <cachetype>         Disable caching for a cachetype.
  --refresh <cachetype>         Clean cache types.
  --flush <magento|storage>     Flushes slow|fast cache storage.

  cleanmedia                    Clean the JS/CSS cache.
  cleanimages                   Clean the image cache.
  destroy                       Clear all caches.
  help                          This help.

  <cachetype>     Comma separated cache codes or value "all" for all caches

Magento (with shell). The script was developed on EE 1.9, but should work with any Magento version that has the /shell directory.

Installation is very simple! Clone/copy the contents of /shell to your Magento /shell directory.

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