Add WP CLI globally for all users

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If you haven’t heard of it the wp cli is amazing for resetting passwords managing plugins updates and so much more.

https://wp-cli.org/

Steps one by one.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar
chmod +x wp-cli.phar
sudo mv wp-cli.phar /usr/local/bin/wp
nano /etc/profile.d/add_user_local_bin.sh
PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin

Oneliner.
wget -O /usr/local/bin/wp https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar; chmod +x /usr/local/bin/wp; touch /etc/profile.d/add_user_local_bin.sh; echo ‘PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin’ >> /etc/profile.d/add_user_local_bin.sh;

How it looks.
root@ols:~# wget -O /usr/local/bin/wp https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar; chmod +x /usr/local/bin/wp; touch /etc/profile.d/add_user_local_bin.sh; echo ‘PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin’ >> /etc/profile.d/add_user_local_bin.sh;
–2019-10-09 23:36:44-- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar
Resolving raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)… 151.101.0.133, 151.101.64.133, 151.101.128.133, …
Connecting to raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)|151.101.0.133|:443… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 5542314 (5.3M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘/usr/local/bin/wp’

/usr/local/bin/wp 100%[=============================================================================>] 5.29M 31.0MB/s in 0.2s

2019-10-09 23:36:45 (31.0 MB/s) - ‘/usr/local/bin/wp’ saved [5542314/5542314]

root@ols:~#

Then login as a user
su - user

Then you should be able to use wp CLI commands like.

[user@ols:~/public_html]$ wp core version
5.2.3
[user@ols:~/public_html]$ wp plugin list
±------------------------±---------±----------±--------+
| name | status | update | version |
±------------------------±---------±----------±--------+
| cmb2 | active | none | 2.6.0 |
| disable-comments | active | none | 1.10.2 |
| display-posts-shortcode | active | none | 3.0.2 |
| litespeed-cache | active | none | 2.9.8.6 |
| minify-html-markup | inactive | none | 1.99 |
| redux-framework | active | none | 3.6.15 |
| whattheserver-plugin | active | none | |
| sucuri-scanner | active | none | 1.8.21 |
| virtusky-core | active | none | 1.0 |
| w3-total-cache | inactive | none | 0.10.1 |
| wordfence | inactive | none | 7.4.0 |
| wp-geshi-highlight | active | none | 1.4.1 |
| js_composer | active | available | 5.6 |
| wordpress-seo | active | none | 12.2 |
| advanced-cache.php | dropin | none | |
±------------------------±---------±----------±--------+
[user@ols:~/public_html]$

Resources.

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I would also like to add some info to this thread:

Type the following command to see all available users that can log into the system:

root@srv:~# getent passwd | egrep -v ‘/s?bin/(nologin|shutdown|sync|halt)’ | cut -d: -f1

Usually the last usernames are the users that is automatically created when we add a website.

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It seems for me that inserting the correct php version at the begging of the PATH was the solution of my problem with this :
PATH=/usr/local/lsws/lsphp74/bin:$PATH
Otherwise I got error message that my version of PHP doesn’t support MySQL requested for wp-cli

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it is important to add the exact location like you gave otherwise that will be the issue. in most caese user add the path from the article that is not right