NAME

       mktorrent - simple BitTorrent metainfo file creator

SYNOPSIS

       mktorrent [OPTIONS] <target directory or filename>

DESCRIPTION

       mktorrent  is  a command line utility to create BitTorrent metainfo files used by trackers
       and torrent clients. It can create metainfo files for single files or complete directories
       in a fast way.

OPTIONS

       -a, --announce=<url>[,<url>...]
              Specify the full announce URLs.  Additional -a adds backup trackers.

       -c, --comment=<comment>
              Add a comment to the metainfo.

       -d, --no-date
              Don't write the creation date.

       -h, --help
              Show this help screen.

       -l, --piece-length=<n>
              Set the piece length to 2^n bytes.  Default is 18, that is 2^18 = 256kB.

       -n, --name=<name>
              Set the name of the torrent.  Default is the basename of the target.

       -o, --output=<filename>
              Set the path and filename of the created file.  Default is <name>.torrent.

       -p, --private
              Set the private flag.

       -s, --source=<source>
              Add source string embedded in infohash.

       -t, --threads=<n>
              Use <n> threads for calculating hashes.  Default is the number of CPU cores.

       -v, --verbose
              Be verbose.

       -w, --web-seed=<url>[,<url>...]
              Add web seed URLs.  Additional -w adds more URLs.

AUTHORS

       Written by Emil Renner Berthing <esmil@mailme.dk>.  As of May 2016 the upstream maintainer
       is Kai Nilsen <mktorrent@rudde.org>.

       This  manpage  was  written  for  the  Debian  mktorrent  package   by   Paride   Legovini
       <pl@ninthfloor.org> and Nico Golde <nion@debian.org>.

REPORTING BUGS

       Please  send  bug  reports, patches, feature requests, praise and general gossip about the
       program to: <mktorrent@rudde.org>.

COPYRIGHT

       This program is Free Software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of
       the  GNU  General  Public  License  as  published  by the Free Software Foundation; either
       version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

SEE ALSO

       More documentation at: <https://github.com/Rudde/mktorrent/wiki>.