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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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