@PieterGoosen You have a small open end here, in terms of upping the answer rate: wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/214455/…

@cjbj He rage-quitted

@toscho right ... so he'll be back once he calms down and find my message

lol @cjbj, but I tend to agree with you.

@hakre if you use Composer there are different ways to use it to install WP from command line. One is github.com/wecodemore/wpstarter that would not remove xmlrpc.php but you can just add Composer script like rm /path/to/xmlrpc.php