Setup WordPress using shell

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If you don’t want to wait for your ftp client to upload all these wordpress files, and you have shell access to your web server, then it’s easy and fast to set up the wordpress files.

First you have to log in, to your web server and go to the desired folder, were you want the wordpress/ folder to exist.

1. Then just type  wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
   It will grab the latest wordpress release, as a compressed file.
2. Then you have to decompress this file. You can do it by typing: tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz
3. Clean up your folder by removing the commpressed file.
   Just type:  rm -rf latest.tar.gz
4. Finally rename the wordpress folder into something different: mv oldname newname