NAME

       ctorrent - Download bittorrent files from command line

SYNOPSIS

         ctorrent - [options] *.torrent

OPTIONS

       -a  Preallocate files on disk

       -A USER-AGENT-STRING
           Set User-Agent header (default "Enhanced-CTorrent/dnh3.2")

       -b FILE
           Bitfield save FILE (default is torrent+".bf")

       -c  Check pieces only, don't download

       -d  Daemon mode (fork to background)

       -D rate
           Max bandwidth down (unit KiB/s)

       -e hours
           Exit while seed HOURS later (default 72 hours)

       -E ratio
           Exit after seeding to RATIO (UL:DL)

       -f  Force saved bitfield or seed mode (skip initial hash check)

       -h|-H
           Display short help.

       -i IP
           Listen for connections on specific IP address (default all/any)

       -l LENGTH
           Piece length (default 262144)

       -m PEERS-MIN
           Min peers count (default 1)

       -M PEERS-MAX
           Max peers count (default 100)

       -n FILE-NBR-LIST
           Specify file number(s) to download

       -p PORT
            Listen PORT (default 2706 -> 2106)

       -P ID
           Set Peer ID prefix (default "-CD0302-")

       -s SAVEFILE|DIR
           Download ("save as") to a different file or directory

       -t  Create a new torrent file

       -t URL
           Tracker's URL

       -v  Verbose output (for debugging)

       -x  Decode metainfo (torrent) file only, don't download

       -z SLICE-SIZE
           Download slice/block size, unit KB (default 16, max 128)

DESCRIPTION

       CTorrent is a BitTorrent Client program written in C/C++. Fast and small are CTorrent's
       two strengths.

       EXAMPLES

           ctorrent -s save.iso -e 12 -C 32 -p 6881 iso.torrent

ENVIRONMENT

       None.

FILES

       None.

SEE ALSO

       azureus(1) bittornado(1) bittorrent(1) ktorrent(1) qbittorrent(1) qtorrent(1) rtorrent(1)
       transmission-cli(1)

AUTHORS

       This manual page was written by Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>, for the Debian GNU
       system (but may be used by others). Released under license GNU GPL v2 or (at your option)
       any later version.

       The program development was discontinued 2006-06-07. See project page
       https://sourceforge.net/projects/ctorrent