NAME

       btreannounce — change the announce address of a torrent file

SYNOPSIS

       btreannounce  trackerURL file [file ...]  [--announce_list announceURLlist]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the btreannounce command.

       This  manual  page  was  written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a
       manual page.

       btreannounce is a program which will change the announce address of a existing torrent file. The  already
       existing torrent specified by the file argument will be modified to use the new announce url given by the
       trackerURL argument.

OPTIONS

       These  programs  follow  the  usual  GNU  command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes
       (`--').  A summary of options is included below.

       --announce_list announceURLlist
                 a list of announce URLs. This is an optional list of redundant/backup tracker URLs. The  format
                 of announceURLlist is as follows:

                 URL[,URL ...][|URL[,URL ...] ...]

                 where  the  URLs  separated  by commas are tried randomly, then the groups of URLs separated by
                 pipes are tried in sequential order.  If this option is omitted, it is assumed you  don't  want
                 an  announce_list  field  in the metafile.  If announce_list is given, clients which support it
                 will ignore the trackerURL value. (defaults to '')

EXAMPLES

       These examples show how to use the --announce_list option in a few scenarios.

       Try the three trackers (1-3) in sequential order:

       btreannounce trackerURL file --announce_list http://track1.com|http://track2.com|http://track3.com

       Try the three trackers (1-3) in a randomly selected order:

       btreannounce trackerURL file --announce_list http://track1.com,http://track2.com,http://track3.com

       Try the main tracker (1) first, then try the two backups (2 and 3) randomly:

       btreannounce trackerURL file --announce_list http://track1.com|http://track2.com,http://track3.com

SEE ALSO

       btcopyannounce(1), btrename(1), btsethttpseeds(1), btshowmetainfo(1), bittorrent-downloader(1).

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Cameron Dale  <camrdale@gmail.com>  (based  on  the  original  man  pages
       written  by  Micah  Anderson  <micah@debian.org>)  for  the  Debian  system  (but may be used by others).
       Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU  General
       Public License, Version 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-
       licenses/GPL.

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