NAME

ctorrent - Download bittorrent files from command line

SYNOPSIS

  ctorrent - [options] *.torrent

OPTIONS

-a

Preallocate files on disk

-A USER-AGENT-STRING

Set User-Agent header (default "Enhanced-CTorrent/dnh3.2")

-b FILE

Bitfield save FILE (default is torrent+".bf")

-c

Check pieces only, don't download

-d

Daemon mode (fork to background)

-D rate

Max bandwidth down (unit KiB/s)

-e hours

Exit while seed HOURS later (default 72 hours)

-E ratio

Exit after seeding to RATIO (UL:DL)

-f

Force saved bitfield or seed mode (skip initial hash check)

-h|-H

Display short help.

-i IP

Listen for connections on specific IP address (default all/any)

-l LENGTH

Piece length (default 262144)

-m PEERS-MIN

Min peers count (default 1)

-M PEERS-MAX

Max peers count (default 100)

-n FILE-NBR-LIST

Specify file number(s) to download

-p PORT

 Listen PORT (default 2706 -> 2106)
    

-P ID

Set Peer ID prefix (default "-CD0302-")

-s SAVEFILE|DIR

Download ("save as") to a different file or directory

-t

Create a new torrent file

-t URL

Tracker's URL

-v

Verbose output (for debugging)

-x

Decode metainfo (torrent) file only, don't download

-z SLICE-SIZE

Download slice/block size, unit KB (default 16, max 128)

DESCRIPTION

CTorrent is a BitTorrent Client program written in C/C++. Fast and small are CTorrent's two strengths.

EXAMPLES

    ctorrent -s save.iso -e 12 -C 32 -p 6881 iso.torrent

ENVIRONMENT

None.

FILES

None.

SEE ALSO

azureus(1) bittornado(1) bittorrent(1) ktorrent(1) qbittorrent(1) qtorrent(1) rtorrent(1) transmission-cli(1)

AUTHORS

This manual page was written by Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>, for the Debian GNU system (but may be used by others). Released under license GNU GPL v2 or (at your option) any later version.

The program development was discontinued 2006-06-07. See project page https://sourceforge.net/projects/ctorrent