btmaketorrentgui(1) General Commands Manual btmaketorrentgui(1)NAME
btmaketorrentgui -- GUI program to generate torrent meta-info files for use with bittorrent
SYNOPSIS
btmaketorrentgui
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the btmaketorrentgui command.
This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.
btmaketorrentgui is a GUI interface to btmakemetafile, it generates the torrent info files that are distributed to bittorrent clients (usu-
ally over http) to inform them of where the designated tracker for the torrent is located, and to enable them to verify the file's con-
tents.
btmaketorrentgui does not require arguments like btmakemetafile does, instead everything is done in the GUI interface. The first box in the
GUI is the file or directory that the torrent info file will be generated for, the second is the "announce" address of the tracker (ex.
http://my.tracker:6969/announce). The third box is for an optional list of announces, separated by commas or whitespace and on several
lines. You can also optionally set the piece size and a comment.
SEE ALSO btcompletedir(1), btcompletedirgui(1), btmakemetafile(1), btshowmetainfo(1), bittorrent-downloader(1).
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Cameron Dale <camrdale@gmail.com> (based on the original man pages written by Micah Anderson
<micah@debian.org>) for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this docu-
ment under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
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buildtorrent - a torrent file creation program.
SYNOPSIS
buildtorrent [OPTIONS] -a announceurl input output
buildtorrent [OPTIONS] -a announceurl -f filelist -n name output
DESCRIPTION
buildtorrent is a torrent file creation program. Given an announce url and an input file or directory, buildtorrent generates an output
.torrent file that can be used by torrent clients.
OPTIONS -a announce, --announce=url
Announce URL (required).
-f filelist, --filelist=filelist
A text file (or - for standard input) containing a list of files to add to the output torrent file, together with the path to use
inside the torrent. One file is given per line, use / as path separator for the torrent path, use | to separate the filesystem path
from the torrent path. Backslash can be used to escape newlines and | characters inside names. For example:
/data/files/linux.iso|bin/linux.iso
/data/files/linux.txt|doc/linux.txt
Using this option requires that the --name option be used.
-n name, --name=name
Specify the name for the torrent. Usage of this option is required when the --filelist option is used, in which case it specifies
the name of the torrent directory. Usage without a file list overrides the name of the directory or file given on the command line.
-A announces, --announcelist=announces
Additional announce URL list. Use , to separate outer level lists, and | to separate inner level items; for example:
a,b1|b2,c
-w webseeds, --webseeds=webseeds
Additional WebSeed URL list. Use , to separate items; for example:
a,b,c
-l length, --piecelength=length
Piece length in bytes (default 262144).
-L length, --piecesize=size
Use 2^size as piece length (default 18) (overrides -l ).
-c comment, --comment=comment
User comment (omitted by default).
-p private, --private=private
Private flag (either 0 or 1).
-D, --nodate
Omit the creation date field.
-C, --nocreator
Omit the created by field.
-m, --md5sum
Add an md5sum field for each file.
-s, --show
Show generated torrent structure.
-S, --showall
Show generated torrent structure, including piece data.
-q, --quiet
Quiet operation with reduced output.
-V, --version
Show the version string.
-h, --help
Show a help screen with brief usage information.
AUTHORS
Claude Heiland-Allen (claudiusmaximus@goto10.org)
SEE ALSO createtorrent(1), mktorrent(1)
http://wiki.theory.org/BitTorrentSpecification
http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0012.html
http://www.getright.com/seedtorrent.html
0.8 January 2010 BUILDTORRENT(1)