wp.sh

#!/bin/sh

if [[ $# -eq 0 ]] ; then
    echo 'Usage: blog-checkup someblog.com'
    exit 0
fi

# 1st get the bloddy IP address
#ip=`dig +short $1`
ip=`ping -c1 $1|head -n1|egrep --color="never" -o '[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+'` 

echo "-- IP Address ------------------------------------------------------------"
echo "$ip"

# 2nd shows the result of the DNS reverse lookup
echo "-- DNS Reverse lookup ----------------------------------------------------"
reverse_lookup=`dig -x $ip`
echo "$reverse_lookup"

# 3rd try a simple POST request on xmlrpc.php
echo "-- xmlrpc.php http status ------------------------------------------------"
post_result=`curl --data t=1 -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" $1/xmlrpc.php`
if [ "$post_result" = "200" ]; then
  echo "HTTP STATUS [$post_result] OK -> xmlrpc success response"
fi