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TRANSMISSION-CLI(1) | General Commands Manual | TRANSMISSION-CLI(1) |
NAME¶
transmission-cli
—
a bittorrent client
SYNOPSIS¶
transmission-cli |
-h
|
DESCRIPTION¶
The transmission-cli
program is a
lightweight, command-line BitTorrent client with scripting capabilities.
The options are as follows:
-b
--blocklist
- Enable peer blocklists. Transmission understands the bluetack blocklist file format. New blocklists can be added by copying them into the config-dir's "blocklists" subdirectory.
-B
--no-blocklist
- Disable blocklists.
-d
--downlimit
number- Set the maximum download speed in KB/s
-D
--no-downlimit
- Don't limit the download speed
-er
--encryption-required
- Encrypt all peer connections.
-ep
--encryption-preferred
- Prefer encrypted peer connections.
-et
--encryption-tolerated
- Prefer unencrypted peer connections.
-f
--finish
script- Set a script to run when the torrent finishes
-g
--config-dir
directory- Where to look for configuration files. This can be used to swap between using the cli, daemon, gtk, and qt clients. See https://github.com/transmission/transmission/blob/main/docs/Configuration-Files.md for more information.
-h
--help
- Prints a short usage summary.
-m
--portmap
- Enable portmapping via NAT-PMP or UPnP
-M
--no-portmap
- Disable portmapping
-p
--port
port- Set the port to listen for incoming peers. (Default: 51413)
--tos
tos-
Use a ToS or DSCP name to set the peer socket service type for local router-based traffic shaping. Valid values are a decimal value 0-255, or any of these DSCP strings:
“af11”, “af12”, “af13”, “af21”, “af22”, “af23”, “af31”, “af32”, “af33”, “af41”, “af42”, “af43”, “cs0”, “cs1”, “cs2”, “cs3”, “cs4”, “cs5”, “cs6”, “cs7”, “ef”, “le” These ToS keys are deprecated and will be removed in the future: “default”, “lowcost”, “lowdelay,” “reliability”, “throughput”
-u
--uplimit
number- Set the maximum upload speed in KB/s
-U
--no-uplimit
- Don't limit the upload speed
-v
--verify
- Verify the torrent's downloaded data.
-w
--download-dir
directory- Where to save downloaded data.
SIGNALS¶
In addition to these options, sending
transmission-cli
a SIGHUP signal will contact the
tracker for more peers.
ENVIRONMENT¶
TRANSMISSION_HOME
- Sets the default config-dir.
http_proxy
- libcurl uses this environment variable when performing tracker announces.
FILES¶
- ~/.config/transmission
- Directory where
transmission-cli
keeps torrent information for future seeding and resume operations.
AUTHORS¶
The transmission-cli
program was written
by Eric Petit, Josh
Elsasser, Charles Kerr,
Mitchell Livingston, and Mike
Gelfand.
SEE ALSO¶
transmission-create(1), transmission-daemon(1), transmission-edit(1), transmission-gtk(1), transmission-qt(1), transmission-remote(1), transmission-show(1)
July 21, 2008 | Debian |