Rtorrent-powerful command line BT Client

If you do not worry about the complexity of the torrent command line client, consider it again. I believe that once you have used the command line-based BT client, you will not need it: you can easily start and monitor the progress in your terminal window. In this article, we will introduce a powerful command line BT client-rtorrent.

NOTE-all examples and commands shown in this article have been tested in Ubuntu 13.04.

Rtorrent-command line BT Client

Concise tutorial

Rtorrent is a command line BT client (based on ncurses) used to easily download files. After installing this BT client, run it with the following command:

Rtorrent

There is a window after running rtorrent:

Okay, I agree that the main window does not look very beautiful and the information displayed is a little messy. Don't worry, as long as you press enter on your keyboard, a prompt will appear at the bottom of the window.

This is:

Note that the prompt load. normal> appears on the screen. You only need to enter the torrent file name in the next step. For example, I enter this torrent file name Fedora-20-Alpha-x86_64-DVD.torrent.

Note that you only need to enter the torrent file name (if it is not in the current directory, enter the complete path ). You can easily use bash shortcut keys such as [TAB] to complete the file name and path. Then press enter again.

Now you can see that the torrent file has been loaded, but you need to activate it to start downloading. How can this problem be solved? First, press the down arrow. An asterisk should be displayed before the detailed information of the previously loaded file ).

Note that the asterisk is displayed at the beginning of the torrent file information. Now, press Ctrl + s to start downloading.

Rtorrent has started downloading the current file. Use Ctrl + d to stop the download, and then use Ctrl + d to remove the torrent task, that is, uninstall it. Use Ctrl + q to exit rtorrent.

You can see that although it is based on command lines, it is not very difficult to operate rtorrent.

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