I’m building out a new theme for my blog using the _s theme. It’s an exercise in building out a responsive grid. _s is a great theme starter. Underscores.me has a nifty little tool to generate the starter theme with namespaced functions, title, description, etc… for the theme. I wanted to generate the theme directly from command line. Here’s what I used to generate the theme directory with one line (your pwd should be wp-content/themes/):

curl --data "underscoresme_generate=1&underscoresme_name=Coderrr&underscoresme_slug=coderrr&underscoresme_author=Brian+Fegter&underscoresme_author_uri=http%3A%2F%2Fcoderrr.com&underscoresme_description=A+custom+theme+for+coderrr.com." http://underscores.me >> coderrr.zip; unzip coderrr.zip; rm coderrr.zip;

There are four things that happen here:

• Curl http://underscores.me and send post data
• Tell Linux to place all returned data into a zip file
• Unzip that file and create the theme directory
• Remove the zip file

If you don’t want to format your URL encoded data, visit underscores.me and fill out the advanced form. You can extract your post data by using the Google Chrome Dev Tools network tab.