Programatically flush a WP Engine object cache

wpe_flush_cache.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Programatically flush a WPE cache
# Requires https://github.com/a7/wpe-cache-flush/
# Set private key in $private_key
# @params install
# @params private_key
# @returns HTTP status code

# Variables
$private_key=YOUR_PRIVATE_KEY

# User input
read -p 'Install to flush: ' install

# Get site URL, flush cache and return status
echo $(tput setaf 2)'Attempting to flush '$install$(tput sgr 0)
remoteurl=$(wp --ssh=$install@$install.ssh.wpengine.net --quiet option get siteurl)
curl -I $remoteurl/?wpe-cache-flush=$private_key 2>/dev/null | head -n 1 | cut -d$' ' -f2