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MKTORRENT

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
AUTHORS
REPORTING BUGS
COPYRIGHT
SEE ALSO

NAME

mktorrent - simple BitTorrent metainfo file creator

SYNOPSIS

mktorrent [ OPTIONS ] <target directory or filename>

DESCRIPTION

mktorrent is a command line utility to create BitTorrent metainfo files used by trackers and torrent clients. It can create metainfo files for single files or complete directories in a fast way.

OPTIONS

-a , --announce= <url>[,<url>...]

Specify the full announce URLs. Additional -a adds backup trackers.

-c , --comment= <comment>

Add a comment to the metainfo.

-d , --no-date

Don’t write the creation date.

-h , --help

Show this help screen.

-l , --piece-length= <n>

Set the piece length to 2ˆn bytes. Default is 18, that is 2ˆ18 = 256kB.

-n , --name= <name>

Set the name of the torrent. Default is the basename of the target.

-o , --output= <filename>

Set the path and filename of the created file. Default is <name>.torrent.

-p , --private

Set the private flag.

-s , --source= <source>

Add source string embedded in infohash.

-t , --threads= <n>

Use <n> threads for calculating hashes. Default is the number of CPU cores.

-v , --verbose

Be verbose.

-w , --web-seed= <url>[,<url>...]

Add web seed URLs. Additional -w adds more URLs.

AUTHORS

Originally written by Emil Renner Berthing <esmil@mailme.dk>.

This manpage was written for the Debian mktorrent package by Paride Legovini <paride@debian.org> and Nico Golde <nion@debian.org>.

REPORTING BUGS

Please use the GitHub issue tracker <https://github.com/pobrn/mktorrent/issues>.

COPYRIGHT

This program is Free Software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.