man btmakemetafile.bittornado (Commandes) - generate .torrent meta-info file for every file or directory present in each directory

NAME

btmakemetafile - generate .torrent meta-info file for every file or directory present in each directory

SYNOPSIS

btmakemetafile <trackerurl> <file> [file...] [--piece_size_pow2 num] [--comment comment] [--target file]

DESCRIPTION

btmakemetafile is a program that is used to generate the torrent info files that are distributed to bittorrent clients (usually over http) to inform them of where the designated tracker for the torrent is located, and to enable them to verify the file's contents.

btmakemetafile requires two arguments. The first is the "announce" address of a tracker (ex. http://127.0.0.1:6969/announce), the second is the file that you wish to generate a torrent info file for.

--piece_size_pow2 num

which power of 2 to set the piece size to (0 = automatic) (defaults to 0)

--comment comment

optional human-readable comment to put in .torrent (defaults to '')

--target file

optional target file for the torrent (defaults to '')

--announce_list URLs

a list of announce URLs (defaults to ''). An optional list of redundant/backup tracker URLs, in the format:
url[,url...][|url[,url...]...]
where URLs separated by commas are all tried first before the next group of URLs separated by the pipe is checked. If none is given, it is assumed you don't want one in the metafile. If announce_list is given, clients which support it will ignore the <announce> value.

EXAMPLES

To try three trackers (1-2) in order

Try trackers 1-2 in a randomly selected order

Try tracker 1 first, then try the 2 backups randomly

SEE ALSO

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Micah Anderson <micah@riseup.net>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).