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mktorrent

MKTORRENT(1)						      General Commands Manual						      MKTORRENT(1)

NAME

       mktorrent - simple BitTorrent metainfo file creator

SYNOPSIS

       mktorrent [OPTIONS] <target directory or filename>

DESCRIPTION

       mktorrent  is  a text-based 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 <url>[,<url>]*

	      specify the full tracker announce URLs. At least one is required and additional -a add backup trackers

       -c <comment>

	      add a comment to the metainfo

       -d

	      don't write the creation date

       -h

	      show help screen

       -l <n>

	      set the piece length to 2^n bytes, default is 18, that is 2^18 = 256kb

       -n <name>

	      set the name of the torrent, default is the basename of the target

       -o <filename>

	      set the path and filename of the created file, default is <name>.torrent

       -p

	      set the private flag (dissalow DHT and Peer Exchange)

       -v

	      verbose output

       -w <url>[,<url>]*

	      add web seed URLs, additional -w add more URLs

COPYRIGH

       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.

AUTHORS

       Emil Renner Berthing <esmil@users.sourceforge.net>

       This manpage was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution by Nico Golde <nion@debian.org>

BUGS

       Please send bug reports, patches, feature requests, praise and general gossip about the program to: esmil@users.sourceforge.net

								     mktorrent							      MKTORRENT(1)

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