BTMAKEMETAFILE(1)

NAME
Btmakemetafile - manual page for btmakemetafile <trackerurl> <file> [file...] [params...]

SYNOPSIS
btmakemetafile <trackerurl> <file> [file...] [params...]

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 '')

    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:

    http://tracker1.com|http://tracker2.com|http://tracker3.com

    (tries trackers 1-3 in order)

    http://tracker1.com,http://tracker2.com,http://tracker3.com

    (tries trackers 1-3 in a randomly selected order)

    http://tracker1.com|http://backup1.com,http://backup2.com

    (tries tracker 1 first, then tries between the 2 backups randomly)

makes a .torrent file for every file or directory present in each dir.

SEE ALSO
http://bittornado.org

SEE ALSO
bittorrent-downloader(1), btrename(1), btreannounce(1), bttrack(1).

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