How to use the command line to download BitTorrent filesWant a small, powerful BitTorrent app? Try the command line version of Transmission!
Downloading files via the peer-to-peer BitTorrent protocol doesn't have to be the sole realm of graphical user interface programs with excess system resource overhead. If you want to minimize your overhead, or perhaps use the terminal to visually hide the programs you are running, you can install command line tools to do the downing of BitTorrent files for you. Here's how!
Transmission
Getting Transmission
Using Transmission
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Transmission
Transmission is a free and open source software (FOSS) that manages, creates, edits, and downloads BitTorrent files. Transmission uses the command line to manipulate .torrent files but you can optionally install a graphic front end to run the same commands if the terminal is not your thing.
Getting Transmission
Because Transmission is FOSS (free and open-source software) you can get it directly from the maintainers website or if yo...
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How to use the command line to download BitTorrent files
