Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:14:55 +0200 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: command-line bittorrent utility Message-ID: <486422EF.3070501@FreeBSD.org>
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I am looking for a command-line utility that can fetch via bittorrent that a) doesn't use curses. It must be usable in a script and without a tty! b) doesn't use X11. Must be a command-line utility! c) Must be able to inform the script when the transfer is complete. A callback mechanism of some kind is fine as long as it doesn't require polling. This is for distribution of files within a LAN and WAN: I have some large files that I need to distribute to many machines, and pushing them all out multiple times from the server is inefficient. Things that come close: * The python implementation, but it doesn't seem to work very reliably. I get errors and exceptions from both the client and server when transferring a file with only two machines participating. * http://www.murmeldjur.se/btpd/ is a daemon with command line client. It doesn't provide for c), and it also doesn't work reliably. * Not much else. Surely I am not the first person to want to use bittorrent in a script? Kris
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