command-line bittorrent utility

[Kris Kennaway]

Jille Timmermans wrote:
> (enhanced) ctorrent

Seems to fail requirement a).  Am I wrong?

Kris

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> Kris Kennaway schreef:
>> 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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